Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…
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 to measure AI value in cost…
Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been sliding for years. The headlines are…
In my last post, Awe in an AI World, I wrote about the reclaimed time that AI is creating and the question that keeps me up at night in…
A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments, and tribal knowledge that eventually drowns…
As we prepare to embrace the next era software systems, it’s essential to look back and understand the beginnings of observability in software systems. Observability laid the groundwork…
Doing something faster doesn’t always mean you need to add more capacity. In fact, I suggest taking a look at what you are doing and how you are…
The long-term overhead of not automating your operational problems will choke the growth of your product features. Technical debt is well understood to slow down software product development,…
We are constantly being bombarded with notifications, alerts, feeds, and messages. I have 43 apps installed on my phone. Each one of them has the ability to send…
Google Ventures does a lot of research on sprints. What they don’t say directly is that a sprint is a tightly constrained by time. In five days you…