The Product Engineer - “If you build Enterprise Software, you need product managers.” // If consumer, you need developers who use the product.
A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical Psychologists - What does “open ended question” even mean? Here’s some examples, and a conversational framework built around it. This also probably good for sales and marketing.
The good times in tech are over - ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”
Refactoring to understand and “vibe coding” - ”Code is not the most valuable artifact. Your understanding of the codebase is.”
The Illiterate Corporation
I’m the guest on this week’s When Shit Hits the Fan podcast. You can hear about two of my fan shattings. Here’s the podcast in Apple, Spotify, and Overcast.
Favor documents over slidesSlides are an oral culture, not a written culture. Imagine civilization without writing: that’s what organizations relying on slides instead of documents are like. There are workarounds, and they tend to prove the comparison. Often, you will see a slide with a lot of words, and the presenter will apologize that there’s too much text.
Ironies of Agentic AI - “[R]ather than removing human dependencies, automation often shifts and amplifies them.”
Agentic AI Is The Next Competitive Frontier - “CEOs must architect the autonomous enterprise.” // Changing culture, org structure, and how work is done day-to-day. That’s a big ask. It rarely works.