I watched a press conference of Bill Belichick being asked about long snappers and whether it’s worth having a dedicated roster spot for a specialist.

There should only be one primary action the user can take on the screen at a time.

Tags are used to create heterarchical systems that lets you iterate on retrieval.

Coordination in the absence of communication. For example, two players in a game can’t talk to each other but they want to team up for a quest.

Does remote work make the principal-agent problem worse? If so, why?

The following list of things are my choices for boring technology.

The likelihood of pivoting seems to increase as the number of founders increases.

The American Community Survey from 2021 by the US Census Bureau showed that the largest share of working from home was in major cities and metropolitan areas.

The abundance of stuff—both online and offline—means that every conceivable niche is available to everyone.

For as long as possible, in an early-stage startup, one of the founders should write the check for any expenses of the company.

My personal site now gets 1,000 clicks per month from Google searches.

There’s now an official API for Grammarly and a language server.

A recent analysis of the trading volume of NFTs found that it fell 97% from $17 billion in January to $466 million in September.

An effective way for announcing new features is to use the user/problem/answer tweet thread format.

Cost basis tends to get the most attention when it comes to pricing.

Workers moving from tech hubs to red states for remote work could be inhibited by conservative legislation like anti-abortion laws.

Managers are essential to scaling a successful organization but have a large blast radius if things go wrong.

I remember when I first started working at Stripe I felt like the dumbest person in the room.

Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) revenue multiples in public markets for SaaS businesses rose sharply from 2019 to 2021 up to as high as 24x.

One of the most profound findings from Godel’s incompleteness theorem is that meaning can be mapped onto a system that was specifically designed to prevent it.

When selling B2B software, self-serve and product-led growth is appealing business model (no sales people, account managers, etc.

Remote work has not yet made the jump to universality. We’re still in the phase of “specialized work objects” which are a combination technology to perform the work, jobs that can be performed remotely, and businesses that can operate anywhere.

To run a one-off ECS task from the aws CLI in Fargate you need to specify the subnet, set assignPublicIp to enabled (otherwise it will fail to pull the container image), and optionally include overrides to run the command you want.

Building tools to help users that are not experts in the thing they are using the tool to do presents unique design challenges.