Not that kind of staging. Team-based products are really hard to demo, because they’re hard to see the value of as a single person. If the point of the product is collaboration, standing up a single user account doesn’t really show any of the value. It’s like the difference between touring a completely empty house,...
Product-led growth starts with making individual contributors (often developers) want your software so they campaign to get their manager to purchase it. I mean, there’s a lot of nuance to it, but that’s the basics. Sales-led growth is when you convince someone with a lot of corporate power that your product can solve their problems,...
What is the new hotness in stickers this year? Let's look!
There are almost no logical places to put a 60-inch tv in a craftsman foursquare house. The house is built for light and air and an era where the home entertainment center was a piano and a victrola. Where meals were eaten at a dining table and gas lighting and coal boilers were the order...
Safety codes are a pain in the butt. Here is my reflection on our electrical code.
I wanted toast this morning. To get it, I unpacked 3 boxes and grouped a bunch of other things together, and it took me about 30 minutes. #refactoring We just moved house, after 9 years in one place. And we moved from a late-70s rambler to an Arts & Crafts foursquare. So right now, all...
I love impromptu speaking when I get to do it, and Write the Docs had open signups for lightning talks. I wanted to explain the thing I keep teaching founders and all the awesome people I keep coaching: No one cares. No one cares about the thing you want to tell them about as much...
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You should contract me to help with your developer experience
If you ask me what I’m scared of in life, I’ll tell you things like financial insecurity, poisonous snakes, and losing loved ones. Pretty typical. However, if you look at my behavior, the thing I work hardest to avoid is boredom. Until we had reliable books on our tiny pocket computers, I always had a...