Writing is clarifying

In recent weeks, I met several talented, driven, experienced engineers and leaders working hard to bootstrap their ideas into startups.

This is the first of a few essays I’m writing as a freshly minted builder, building new things in the greenfield rather than playing corporate leadership roles in the brownfield.

A recent wildly popular post argued that a $5,000 token budget per engineer per month is optimal, and that anything less or more would be suboptimal.

The tech industry has declared that AI will increase developer productivity.

I have spent nearly a decade asking a few simple questions.

It is time to dig deep to tear apart the romantic idea that authenticity is showing up as yourself.

I know a software developer, call her A.

Take a typical work situation.

I vividly remember how it felt in my stomach - a mixture of bitterness, hurt, and shame.