just dans

04 May 2021

Reading about, but not partaking in, the dotcom boom of the nineties, the defining characteristic of startups seemed to be the hours worked. …

26 Apr 2021

At various retrospectives and postmortems the past few weeks, there’s been a clear pattern. When a project has gone well, it turns out we’ve …

02 Apr 2021

I passed 100 prayer flags strung on a wire over the creek with the morning sun shining through them and thought how adventurers, the truest …

01 Apr 2021

I’ve begun to think of email, Twitter, news articles, Slack, voice messages, and any other interruption as the Stream. That’s not an …

22 Mar 2021

It was glorious out this weekend. I spent as much of it as I could outdoors, including bringing the kids to see their great-grandparents. I …

18 Mar 2021

A sign that you’ve reached capital-A adulthood is actively looking for ways to improve yourself and those around you. Or it’s a sign that …

11 Mar 2021

Some school systems and IT providers have blocked Replit because it’s distracting. That feels short-sighted to me. Most of the internet …

09 Mar 2021

“What is your engineering culture like?” The short answer: think radically, ship incrementally. What does that mean day-to-day? It’s hard to …

08 Mar 2021

People ask me who are competitors are and instead of listing companies I tell them what I’m worried about. “We’re the easiest place to code …

03 Mar 2021

The successful projects I’ve been a part of all had a common flow: Pick a goal. Start working right away. Ask for help when you need it. …