A PSA for non-technical people in tech companies
It may seem like this is all we do:
And how something being disputed means nothing
TL;DR; Mostly everything is or can be disputed.
To put “This is disputed” warnings on only some of the things, you skew reality in favor of whomever you want, and control the narrative in a sly and cowardly way.
Something being disputed doesn’t mean anything, the scientific method exists precisely…
This happened in 2016 but I never published it, so, here it goes.
I like to test things around me until they break, and figure out why they broke, and fix them. …
So, you want to create a startup, well, sit down and let me explain how this works by telling you the story of Jane, a fictional startup founder created for this tutorial.
Finding your product
Jane could choose only one of the following ideas to pursue:
- A platform that uses AI to do…
Do you want help or do you just want to feel helped?
If the self-help book you just read made you:
- feel capable of taking on the entire world
- feel very good about yourself
- feel super-duper optimistic
- feel like things are really simple
it was probably garbage. Why?
Because it told you what you wanted to read
Whenever you read something you already partially believe, you feel good about it. …
Imagine a gold rush. Many tell you that the best way to monetize it is by selling shovels. But then, doesn’t the shovel selling become a secondary gold rush? And so on and so forth?
At what point does the shovel-level become too deep, or does it not matter assuming…
You’re not wrong, but…
Stores throughout the world are hitting stocking problems as people are buying out food and other necessities. The people telling them not to buy stuff are the same people that didn’t believe the virus would reach pandemic status. So, who’s right?
Panic buying is done by those who didn’t believe…
A short motivational story
When I was starting off my freelance work as a software developer back in 2010, I had a client that was a friend of a friend, we worked well together so he eventually hired me in a pretty close to a full-time arrangement.
He was very business savvy, and I…
The most widely used development methodology
A new feature request arrives, and everyone feels that it doesn’t make any sense. It requires big changes to the current user flow, doesn’t seem to be a needed, and just adds onto the other unneeded features that make up 90% of your product.
