Duncan Grazier / Productivity

Mar 24

“Tokenmaxxing” Is Lines-of-Code Thinking for the Agentic Era

Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last…

Mar 10

Every company I’ve talked to in the last two quarters is asking the same question about AI: what’s the ROI? The instinct is…

Mar 03

Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been…

Feb 18

In my last post, Awe in an AI World, I wrote about the reclaimed time that AI is creating and the question that…

Jan 22

A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments,…

Apr 23

As we prepare to embrace the next era software systems, it’s essential to look back and understand the beginnings of observability in…

Dec 04

Doing something faster doesn’t always mean you need to add more capacity. In fact, I suggest taking a look at what you…

Aug 13

The long-term overhead of not automating your operational problems will choke the growth of your product features. Technical debt is well understood…

Apr 08

We are constantly being bombarded with notifications, alerts, feeds, and messages. I have 43 apps installed on my phone. Each one of…

Jul 20

Google Ventures does a lot of research on sprints. What they don’t say directly is that a sprint is a tightly constrained…