Are you a must-have?
Steve Jobs famously called Dropbox a “feature, not a product”, as it turned out it didn’t matter. Dropbox was a must-have.
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January Reads
A short, but hopefully valuable, post this week as I look to keep my 10 week writing streak intact. This week was full of travel for work so I didn't have the morning routine that eventually leads to a post. For this week, I'm passing along
Move Fast and Break Nothing
“It’s fine if AI messes up an email, it’s a disaster if it causes a power outage.” If you want to know why the adoption of AI will be slow within critical industries, that one sentence from a recent conversation I had sums it up pretty well. Generative
Vibe Thinking
Yes, I rolled my eyes at the title, too. But stay with me here and acknowledge that I am thinking out loud. Vibe coding took the world by storm over the last 12 months. It placed the power of software engineering in the hands of everyone. It changed how we
The Checklist Fallacy
Sometime in 2005, Bob Iger and Steve Jobs sat down in a room together to discuss Disney acquiring Pixar. Iger recalled Jobs' initial reaction and the initial list of cons they laid out on the whiteboard in Cupertino. * Disney will destroy Pixar's culture * Disney will kill Pixar&