There is a long list of reasons that a startup to fail, but running out of money is high among them.

Product debt is when promises made about functionality exceed what the product can actually do.

There are many times in business when an answer is required.

A small thing I realized about programming is that nullable values carry a sneaky amount of complexity in code.

A useful metric for SaaS businesses is the amount of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) per employee.

The color we see in complete darkness is not pure black, instead they see a dark gray called Eigengrau.

The theory popularized by the book The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, published in 1970, has long since been debunked.

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 2024.

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.