Software needs joy and surprise. Maybe even the occastional clown nose. Because boring apps are just sad little formal shoes to fill.
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AWS is the buffet. Azure’s your friendly dad at a BBQ. GCP’s quiet luxury. And they either want to sell you crack, fries, or a magic muffler.
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Banks spend billions on data. They hire data scientists who don’t understand their core businesses and then act shocked with their lack of insights (and speed).
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I wrote this journal entry when ChatGPT first released their product to the public. I spent a lot of time in my man cave, playing with it.
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Engineers are rarely treated like the artists they are. Until we market coding as a creative class—expect more caves, less light and escalating threats about being replaced by AI.
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Every org is filled with dogs, cats, and rats. Most dogs just want to be liked. They bark at the cats but they don’t bite. Which usually means the cats ignore them and the rats take over.
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Monolithic products strip teams of autonomy. They rob good engineers of agency. The real case for building micro-products is that small plus simple equals empowering.
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Tired of average engineering output? Empower engineers. Not with capes. But with some Batman-grade, Alfred-supported self-awareness.
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Derailing democracy is a bug, not a feature. And the devil is in the details of the algorithms you’ll soon work on... applied at scale.
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Low-code/no-code is a noble goal because its intent-- like our greatest ambitions-- is to serve the underserved. But it’s just a magic stone.
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This is one way I recruit online. Cue upbeat pharmaceutical-commercial music.
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Better word: integrate! Because a buy is just a build in disguise— a focus on data that needs your builders and can’t be bought.
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Originally published in 2013 in Information Week… anonymously. There are definitely times when anonymity is a great idea.
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