The Unstoppable Bullshit Robot
Just like you can spend months rolling out critical back-end improvements to a software application to no reaction whatsoever, only to set off a riot when you change the color of a button, “AI” is having a moment (again) right now because the folks at OpenAI did an awesome job plugging their work into something […]
Elon’s Twitter Will Fail
This is one of those topics that doesn’t seem like it needs me to add to it, as most of the smart, correct things have already been said. Still, I’ve read some odd things from smart people who are missing some of the elephants in the room that make it pretty clear Elon Musk will […]
Why is Easy Business Math So Hard?
Years ago, I was a new-ish employee at a startup that was both (a) 100% set on becoming a massive enterprise software company, and (b) celebrating closing a $20k annual contract with one of the biggest companies in the world. “But wait…” I said, nervously. “How many companies out there actually need our product?” 5,000? […]
Liter of Cola
Without thinking that hard about it (and probably moderating my red hot take as a result), this is one of the best scenes from any movie ever made. (More than a few f-bombs in here, if you’ve got a kid around.) I’ve obviously watched this a million times, but I’ve never really felt obligated to […]
You Fix What You can Reach
Elephants One consistent factor across the now numerous early-stage companies I’ve worked at for the last decade or so is the presence of proverbial “elephants in the room”. Everywhere I’ve been, there has always been something bigger and more fundamentally important than the things we were working on, that everyone senior-enough knew was more important, […]
Viva La Resolution
At the end of February, I left my job at Botify after an extremely eventful two years. I enjoyed my time there, and worked with a lot of cool people (from all over the world!) in a very weird, largely COVID-dominated environment that forced me to interact with everyone almost entirely via Zoom and Slack. […]