I recently wrote and published the Stripe Atlas Guide to Starting a Remote Company.

In Startup Decoupling & Reckoning by Elad Gil, the author lays out the situation many mid-to-late stage startups will be in starting at the end of 2023.

Companies don’t really want frontend engineers or backend engineers or infrastructure engineers.

There’s a push in conservative politics to make it illegal to be trans or dress in drag.

On one very special day, Taravangian was the smartest person in the world.

It’s fairly common for companies to make sweeping claims in the course of day-to-day business.

I would guess that a significant amount of software is written for one person and we should celebrate it more.

Writing code is also writing for other people. We use many conventions in written communication to help with readability.

This question comes up a lot from founders starting a company and raising a seed round—how much should you pay yourself?

New York City’s largest union, District Council 37, is in the midst of negotiating a five-year deal that includes, among other things, protections for remote work.

It always seems to take awhile to get resolve an issue with a state agency.

What gets you into a creative field is having really good taste.

One of the many challenges of staying compliant is that the feedback loop can be incredibly slow.

Sometimes the only way to know there is a problem is by receiving a letter in the mail from a state agency.

A recent study found that workers in Manhattan are spending $12.

In There Is No Software Maintenance by Henrik Warne, the author argues that software maintenance is just product development.

In a paper CEO Stress, Aging, and Death, the authors studied the effects of managerial stress on lifespan and visible signs of aging.

A study that looked into the effects of remote learning on grades found that attractive students, both male and female, received better grades during in-person education than remote due to COVID-19.

Many people (myself include) bemoan paying taxes. You might not agree with the lawmakers and policies for spending tax dollars but it does help people.

A recent study from Northwestern Mutual found that Americans expect to need $1.

In the early days of a startup, hiring the early team is one of the biggest challenges.

These days colima is a viable alternative to Docker Desktop on M1 Apple silicon.

The classic model of capitalism (bourgeois capitalism), in which the proprietor of the business fully owns and controls the business, was replaced by managerial capitalism where managers, despite owning small amounts of the company, exhibits full control over the business.

There is a noticeable difference between the speed of the most productive software engineers I’ve worked with and the slowest.