About a month ago
- In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model....
- Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the economic benefit of refactoring more…...
about 1 month ago
- I've started a new company: Superlogical. I authored1 the announcement post on the Superlogical homepage, which describes the problem statement and what we're building.2 Read that to learn more. This post is more of a personal statement about what led to this, how it relates to...
- In the course of conversations with startups that I’ve invested in, that I advise, or that I simply encounter, it’s very common to get into discussions about prioritization. Some common situations that I hear about all the time: We don’t know how to balance incremental features...
- What is usage-based billing? Tokens, credits, and outcomes, explained in the controlled language of aircraft manuals. The unit changes. The meter does not. The post What is usage-based billing? Tokens, credits, and outcomes, explained in Simplified Technical English appeared...
about 2 months ago
- A lot of people simply don’t understand the degree to which competition matters in B2B software, and what competing effectively feels like. Competition is simply the art of increasing your win-rate when you and a competitor vie for the same customer’s business, and this is what...
- @import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Comic+Neue:wght@300;400;700&display=swap"); dt, .agile { font-family: "Comic Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: larger; } dt { padding-top: 0.5rem; padding-bottom: 0rem; } Agile can be...
- The market is in a weird place right now, a lot of companies are making record profits, but at the same time every other company seems to think bankruptcy is around the corner. Both of these camps seem to use the same general strategy: cut costs and maximize profits. What mainly...
2 months ago
- 30 Jun, 2026 Hi friends, Many of you mistakenly got onboarding emails yesterday. I'm sorry about that. I was tweaking the way emails are sent to new users and accidentally sent it out to everyone. Don't worry, you'll get your weekly digest on Friday as usual. (If you got a...
- Here's a reproduction of the infamous "Waterfall Diagram", from the landmark paper Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (Royce, 1970): SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS PROGRAM DESIGN CODING TESTING OPERATIONS Behold, the enemy of Agile! Although,...
3 months ago
- The relationship engineers have with product management is more dysfunctional than with any other part of the company. There’s no shared culture or language like there is with other engineers, and the rules of “who gets to tell who what to do” aren’t as clear-cut as they are...
- 7 Jun 2026Throughout my career, I've heard the same cliche repeated again and again. Here's some examples from the wild: "Customers don’t care about your testing at all. They care that the product works." "Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack" "First you must accept that...
- Throughout my career, I've heard the same cliche repeated again and again. Here's some examples from the wild: "Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack" 1 really works. He's showing us a cold, hard truth we're all just too idealistic or short-sighted to see. "Why are you...
- Ship fast. Fix fast. Speed is everything. Someone reports a bug. You fix it in 2 minutes. Not 2 hours. Not tomorrow. Right now. This is not about talent. This is about urgency. You have to feel it. Th...
- Replacing business SaaS applications with vibe-coded equivalents has been a topic of conversations for a long time now. But it feels like the build-vs-buy pendulum has truly swung to the “buy” apex in the last few months. Improvements in frontier models over the last six months...
4 months ago
- The Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) document sitting in your governance folder is one of the most useful tools in the business. Most orgs never use it that way. They treat it as a compliance box ticking exercise, and teams see it as a governance burden at best. The SDLC is a...
- Hi friends, In April, Scour scoured 778,059 posts from 25,790 feeds. This month, my focus was on ranking improvements and adding a number of new features: 🔃 Ranking Improvements Scour is designed to find hidden gems that interest you, while trying to avoid using popularity...
- Figma's reliance on non-designer seats made it uniquely exposed to AI. Claude Design's launch deepens the problem....
5 months ago
- Last post I wrote about how you can approach buy in for your architecture. I’ve been thinking a lot more about the topic, and would like to delve a bit deeper into it. I still stand fully behind the post I wrote two weeks ago, but the more I think (and research) about it, the...
- 14 Apr 2026 RIP Agile, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that literally - because no one was ever clear on what it was. Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whenever it was questioned, a voice (perhaps emanating from a gap in the clouds?) would invariably tell us "ah,...
- When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s no time to schedule calls, get input...
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