Thoughts

Sharing a smorgasbord of perspectives, go-to tools, clichés, after my first decade of writing software, building teams, and growing companies. These are only relevant until they're not.

What goes into your culture?

What does it take to establish product market fit?

What do you see in a calendar?

When is enough, enough?

So who's in charge here?

You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

How far can the cloud services you choose take you and your business? Should you care? Should you consider other options? Do any scale from idea to IPO? Should you ever think about exiting the cloud?

Mental math for time management.

Bringing a clear narrative, selective highlights, and full context is better than chasing priorities into a corner when it comes to team communication for what has to get done.

It's either a hell yeah, or a no.

Cloud 2.0 calls for mis en place across foundational business functions. Cloud 2.0 products and companies should focus on first principles of designing, shipping, and selling software. Guiding the builders with leading indicators of product market fit.

Taking it apart and put it back together for something else, something different, something better.

A compass to help you find the sweet spot in terms of the people whose lives you want to change with your products or services.

Far more fun to run after a boulder down a hill, than to push one up a hill.

Turns out an AI can be your executive assistant, but it requires a twist of creative writing and software development: prompting, not necessarily programming.

Can an AI be your executive assistant?

Is it an industry, or is it an opportunity?

The Hedgehog concept is a simple way to help you figure out where you best fit in the world.

Do you approach technical communication with curiosity, a willingness to be wrong, and a desire to build the best bridge?

After two years of working on Astrobase, through various product iterations, launches, customer interviews, and more, I wanted to share my learnings and my thoughts on what the future holds for me and Astrobase.

Your family and your team are not the same thing.

What is the last project or business you owned? What did developing that project or business mean for you, for those who helped you build it, for your own learning and self improvement?

It takes too much time and energy to be negative.

I think that the goodness of the products and services you build as an entrepreneur can be measured by two factors; how unique and valuable something is.

Glad that's over.

The past ten months have felt like a couple of years – so I've decided to stop, reflect, and share some of my learnings.

Ever wonder how the heck music appears on your daily drive Spotify playlist? Or how artists and songwriters get paid? Read on to learn about that and how it should be a better system.

What a year. This is my yearly reflection post for 2019.

How do think about your quality of work?

Building a triple flywheel for startup life.

What is something that you think is true that most people disagree with you about?

After a semester teaching at Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science department, I wanted to reflect on what it means to teach people better, how to inspire teachers to be better, and how to reorient conversations from machine learning to human learning. I think teaching people should be prioritized over teaching machines.