Hunter is very experienced and insightful. He is not scared to challenge you on your plans and help you think about problems from new angles. This was valuable to me as we were starting on our re-pla...
What is a weirdness budget? You might have heard about this concept as an “innovation budget” or a “risk budget”. I personally don’t like the term “risk budget”, as I think that underestimates risk it...
I really see this moment as an inflection point (as so many recent moments have been). And actually that’s overstating it - the moment was a few weeks ago with Opus 4.7. I see us moving towards anothe...
I’d like to preface with a disclaimer: I do think you should be using agentic tools and engaging with them. This is less a discussion about the tools themselves, and more about how you should go about...
One interesting failure I see in many startups is a lack of a career ladder. The common refrain is “We’re early and scrappy, we don’t need hierarchy!” - and I’m inclined to agree! But you also need to...
Core values are a concept I return to time and time again, across the companies I advise. And core values are surprisingly controversial to many founders. Many would rather just work on something tact...
I’ve joined many engineering organizations, and there’s one metric I return to that differentiated successful organizations from unsuccessful ones - time to onboard, as measured by time to first relea...
Process orientation vs outcome orientation has been debated endlessly over the years. In fact, aspects of this discussion can be traced back to Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. The current thread seems ...