The Next Level

Asking someone to imagine something is a recipe for failure in startups and product management.

While I can't claim to be an expert, I can offer a few tips on designing technical workshops.

Engineering leaders - most, probably 98%, of all deadlines are total bullshit.

In a startup no one will give you permission, unless you ask for it.

Set theoretics types are coming in Elixir, but haven't landed just yet.

Building and maintaining Elixir apps is a great experience, but if you're not careful you can introduce functionality that can accidentally use way more memory than you intended it to.

The key to moving quickly and delivering value as a team in a startup is ruthless prioritization.

Most people say they hate meetings.

If you are joining a remote team or organization the most important advice you can get is default to having conversations in public channels.

When you join a new GitHub organization it can quickly wreck your inbox.

Delivery is the combination of Product, Engineering, and Design, under one roof in order to focus on driving customer outcomes.

August was another good month for content.

ElixirConf 2024 was in Orlando, Florida again.

I hang out in a few different programming and technology Slack communities, and in many of them people are posting non-stop about how difficult it is to get hired right now.

I've always said that software development is a team sport.