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Sketching With Ollama

product
April 10, 2025
On Reading Widely (And Wildly)

personal
April 8, 2025
Product and Engineering in the Age of AI

product
April 4, 2025
The Substack Paradox: When Platform Branding Trumps Custom Domains

February 14, 2025
Product Market Fit Is Like The Speed Limit

product
January 7, 2025
Crafstmen vs. The Assembly Line

startups
September 27, 2024
What To Do With Random Domains You Buy - The Story of Beers Radio

dev startups
August 23, 2024
How To Increase Your App Downloads By Nearly 4000%

product dev
July 31, 2024
Road Trip Perspective Cleanse

personal
July 28, 2024
Learning To Code Killed My Writing Hobby

personal
June 13, 2024
The First Step in the Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping

startups
June 2, 2024
Take The Easy Path

startups
March 8, 2024
The Web Was Built For Subscriptions

product startups
January 5, 2024
Just Launch It

startups product
January 2, 2024
How To Code Sign And Notarize An Electron App On macOS

dev
December 27, 2023
Why I Built My Own Static Site Generator In Go

dev personal
December 24, 2023
Reflections on 40

personal
November 30, 2023
Green Grass and the Ego

personal startups
November 13, 2023
The First Company I (Never) Sold

personal startups
September 27, 2023
Protocols and Paradigms

startups
September 10, 2023
How Working In A Call Center Taught Me How To Talk To Customers

product personal
July 24, 2023
Macro and Micro Management

startups
July 19, 2023
Most Product Management Isn't Product Management

product
June 29, 2023
Playbooks Over Prescription

product startups
June 21, 2023
Small p Product

product
May 9, 2023
How To Drive Your Organization To Use Its Own Product

product
March 11, 2023
The Key To Reducing Reactive Work Is By Being Proactive

product startups
March 1, 2023
Product Management Is Not Guessing

product
March 1, 2023
Stumbling Into Product Management

product
February 14, 2023
The Pitfalls of Habits

product
February 13, 2023
How To Shed The Project Manager Hat

product
February 10, 2023
Treat Your Brand Like a Band

product
February 9, 2023
Driving Product Strategy At An Early-Stage Company

product
February 8, 2023
Landing Pages Are Not MVPs

product
February 7, 2023
Shrink The Scope Of The Problem

product
February 6, 2023
Agendas Make You a Passive Listener

product startups
February 1, 2023
Writing and Distribution

writing
January 19, 2023
Can't Be Evil Is Bad Positioning

product
November 21, 2022
In Favor Of Preservation Over Permanance

product startups
November 8, 2022
Literary Entertainment Studio

product personal
November 7, 2022
The Open Data Nostalgia of Farcaster

personal dev
November 5, 2022
Why I'm Participating in NaNoWriMo For The First Time

writing
October 31, 2022
Thinking In Public

personal product
August 2, 2022
Chasing Glory

personal
August 31, 2021
What is a Writing Sprint?

writing
July 7, 2021
I Bought a SaaS App

personal
July 1, 2021
You Shouldn't Talk To Customers

startups product
June 29, 2021
Audience Building Has Broken Blogging

product writing
June 1, 2021
Write Shitty Code

dev
May 1, 2021
Your Niche Idea Probably Isn't Niche Enough

April 29, 2021
Your App Might Not be a Business

startups dev
April 23, 2021
Your Launch Doesn't Define Your Product

product startups
April 11, 2021
Make Small Apps

dev personal
March 19, 2021
Intentionally Breaking All The Rules

personal startups
January 29, 2021
Ship Pretty, Functional Things

product
January 2, 2021
Progressive Web Apps Will Save The Open Web

product personal
November 22, 2020
How to Spend $60 to Store a 7mb File - Or Why You Should Write Unit Tests

dev
November 18, 2020
What I Would Have Shared on Twitter - Week One

personal
November 17, 2020
The Lure of Enterprise

startups
October 27, 2020
Sell Everything

personal startups
October 22, 2020
New Digs

personal
October 5, 2020
It's OK to Build to Learn

dev
September 21, 2020
The Traps You'll Fall Into When Validating a Market

startups product
September 19, 2020
Help Others and Don't Be a Time Cop

startups personal
July 30, 2020
Your Failure is Your Fault

startups
July 27, 2020
How to Start a Business Without Even Trying

startups personal
July 22, 2020
Nothing Mastered, Everything Gained

personal
July 15, 2020
Running a Filecoin Lotus Testnet Node on a Macbook Pro

dev
July 8, 2020
How I Became a Developer in My 30s

personal dev
July 5, 2020
Post Mortem on the Tachyon Startup Accelerator Experience

startups
June 29, 2020
Startups And Difficult Decisions

startups personal
June 19, 2020
Remote Done Right

personal
May 24, 2020
I Wrote a Puppeteer Script That Ran For Two Days

dev
May 12, 2020
Being Wrong in the Time of a Pandemic

personal
March 15, 2020
What if the Cure for Traffic, Walkable Cities, and Pollution Was Remote Work?

personal
March 13, 2020
Are You Practicing Assumption-Based Design Disguised as UX Design

product
March 13, 2020
Write Because You Like to Write

writing
March 13, 2020
Make Something Today

personal dev
March 13, 2020
Building Products That Solve Problems

product startups
September 20, 2019