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- I don’t much enjoy being a lab rat to your half-baked ideas. I can tell when your approach to what I use is: “Ship it and let’s see how people respond.” Well let me tell you something: I’m not going to respond. My desire to give you constructive feedback is in direct correlation...
- As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I shipped. I think AI had a lot to do with it, freeing me up to take on projects that I still wrote probably 60% of the code I shipped this year, but when I used … Continue reading My...
- Happy New Year and thanks for your support in 2025!...
- Greed ruined a lot of great software out there and enshittification is a real deal among acquired companies… Is there anything we could do about it?
- It Was A Very Weird Year It was an interesting year in the Stay SaaSy universe. We grew our community significantly on Substack and X and via email. We met some amazing people through this blog and we feel increasingly plugged into a truly special group of builders, managers,...
- Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. History suggests we won't do less work - we'll discover we've been massively under-investing in knowledge work because it was too expensive to do all the things that were actually...
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About a month ago
- Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid version & I added far more cool features. Loads of Work… First off, here’s a graph of the number of changes (“commits” in technical terms) that I made. 612 changes in total with a few...
- Organizations often use “value stream” and “value chain” as interchangeable labels. It’s not the biggest architectural drama in the world, but it’s still something that always annoys me a little. We as architects might actually be to blame for this. We keep on coming up with...
about 1 month ago
- With hybrid "AI pricing", users face siloed entitlements, creating "stranded assets" where purchased credits remain unused. This misalignment leads to significant churn risks as companies reassess value versus spend amid rising AI costs and limited access to resources. The post...
about 2 months ago
- I’ve been part of the creation of five enterprise architecture offices in my life. Some I’ve led, others I’ve simply been part of. If you start up an enterprise architecture office, you have two types of strategies people use. Some people start by mapping everything that exists,...
- TL;DR: our Black Friday sale starts this Friday November 28th and runs through Friday December 5th. We’ll be offering two deals: A MEGA BUNDLE with all of our courses for $1000 and a Subatomic + Atomic Design Bundle for $500. […]...
- I find most writing on software productivity to be twaddle, but Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda are notable exceptions. I had a chance to take a look at their new book, published today, and liked it so much I wrote a foreword. more…...
- I’ve touched billing systems inside several companies now, and the same pattern shows up every time: the hard part of migrating off seats isn’t the software, it’s the operational debt baked into the business. This is why billing system migrations take at least 8-10 months. You...
2 months ago
- One of the hardest things I’ve found about being a Head of Product / Chief Product Officer is that you really have two jobs: The first is setting up a strong product culture, establishing strong design/roadmapping practices, mapping out product processes, managing...
- In 2019, I decided to write a book about software engineering. As an experienced software engineer and manager, I had the topic clear in my head, and assumed the whole project would take between six and 12 months in writing and publishing it. The first proof copy of The...
- Content is infinite and free now. Trust isn't. We're abandoning digital channels entirely because we can't tell what's real anymore. The post The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful appeared first on Arnon Shimoni....
- I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology. This service...
- When I was a developer, half of our frustrations were about technical debt (the other were about estimates that are seen as deadlines). We always made a distinction between code debt and architecture debt: code debt being the temporary hacks you put in place to reach a deadline...
3 months ago
- Everyone (mostly me) keeps saying seat pricing is dead, and some people are arguing with me online. I think that’s cool, but it’s because they don’t understand why it’s dying. For twenty years, SaaS revenue scaled with headcount.More humans = more seats.That logic held so long...
- Ellis and Blake are having a catch-up over a coffee. Ellis is looking a little stressed. “We hired a new product manage,” Ellis explains. “So we can be more user-centric.” “Great!” Blake responds. “How often will they speak to the users?” There’s a long silence, which gives...
- As companies grow, there is a stark shift from having a team of generalists to a team of specialists. A young startup might ask an engineer to play roles ranging from engineer to PM to interim manager to solution consultant and more. A young startup might ask a PM to be a PM and...
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