About a month ago
- Spotify’s podcast platform has become chronically unreliable since the company’s leadership started boasting about AI adoption. Competitors haven’t had similar issues, so I offboarded from Spotify....
- I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always the desired outcome. Number chart go up is good...
about 1 month ago
- Here’s the big idea in Keith Johnstone’s book Impro: Children are naturally creative, but are violently formed into repressed adults by Western culture and education The process of becoming more creative and expressive is largely a process of unlearning these habits of...
2 months ago
- In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen, founded by Callum Negus-Fancey. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building...
- Since 2024 the role of the CMO or marketer in a startup has really changed. Mostly, everyone has the same tools so everyone is producing the same slop at the same time. I can no longer remember times that I’ve read content that looks and sounds exactly the same. They organize...
- Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened. The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush created his own unclassified submarine to go sightseeing on the Titanic. Ignoring all advice from experts he created a "macgyveresque death...
3 months ago
- What It’s Like to IPO When baby sea turtles are born on the shore, they immediately rush by the thousand towards the ocean. Every predator in the area swarms to devour as many as they can. Only a few dozen make it to the water. An even smaller number make it to adulthood, and...
4 months ago
- tl;dr: TechPays is joining Levels.fyi: so the leading tech salary site in Europe gets the love and care it deserves. Thanks to Zsombor for building this project with me for so many years. Pay transparency has always been an issue in tech, especially in Europe. For a while,...
5 months ago
- True startup people are one of the most important advantages that many tech companies have. Startup people are aggressive, entrepreneurial, and often bring a dynamism that allows them to cut through significant roadblocks. When there’s a large platform shift (e.g. the AI wave...
6 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 20, 2026 Here’s an interesting and surprising nugget in a recent post by Justin Duke, he of Buttondown: From both onboarding...
8 months ago
- We are living through a strange era in tech. Every month, a new headline appears. Another CEO announces a massive round of layoffs of managers, developers, and engineers. a decrease in software quality, a loss of institutional knowledge, and a product that starts to feel like...
- 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?
9 months ago
- I think lots of founders misunderstand what early-stage marketing is. You don’t start when you get funding, or when you’re ready, or even when you hire your first marketing person – you start when you decide who you want to be in the world but more importantly: who you need to...
- A more sustainable way to do business...
- A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem....
- For the last year or two, I’ve been giving a talk at conferences around Europe about free software. It’s called “open source, open mind: the cost of free software”, there’s a couple of recordings of it up on Youtube if you want to check it out, and, like a lot of my conference...
10 months ago
- Being a solo founder needs company...
- Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there. I’m always interested in seeing new organizations that fund open source popping up, and seeing as they claim several notable projects on their roster, I explored their website with interest and...
11 months ago
- 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...
- The traditional advice for tech companies is that you should ignore your competitors. Just talk to customers and put your energy towards making yourself as great as you can be. Hit the gym, practice gratitude, focus on yourself king. At least in SaaS, I believe that this is...
- How to use piracy to your advantage....
12 months ago
- A Blue Ocean Turns Red in <18 Months If we look at the ecosystem of AI-powered products, there’s a clear pattern of how they emerge and roll out to the world: Initial POC: Someone throws together a software demo – not a robust product ready for public consumption – proving a...
- My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there....
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