In the world of technology, product management has always been about features. The race to add the most features and get them to market quickly has been the name of the game. But as we move into the future, this mindset is no longer going…
There’s a lot to unpack in this post by Erica Dhawan, and it took me a minute to decide which parts to excerpt. This passage, though, captures both her thesis and most of what’s wrong with it: For organizations that are divided across…
A step-by-step guide to making any workplace crisis about you.
Sorry, one more Basecamp link: Jason Fried and DHH (and other 37signals/Basecamp folks, allegedly) wrote a book called Rework about “the better way to work and run your business,” which has a spinoff podcast covering a mix of Basecamp…
In response to the Basecamp partners’ “full Coinbase” heel turn that I wrote about yesterday, Casey Newton spoke with Jason Fried, DHH, and numerous employees and reported on what’s been going on behind the scenes: The controversy that…
The company that wrote “It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work” responds to craziness at work
Some thoughts about a long-standing cliche about product leadership.
It may seem like the work is more important than people, but it’s just a side effect of bringing together a team.
Looking back on a year of Material Design work, conference talks, family travel, and life with a new puppy named Johnny Cash.
22 February 2011 was my first day on the Typekit team. 23 February 2018 will be my last one. After seven years, I’m moving on from Adobe to do something new.
Technologist Kevin Ashton (via M.G. Siegler) on the power of saying no to things, excerpted from his book How To Fly A Horse: Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the…
James Turner writes for O’Reilly Radar about the “best practices” plague afflicting software developers. So far (thank goodness) I haven’t had to play the code coverage game, a nice side effect of working on small teams for smaller…
When I was a full-time freelancer, doing agency-type work, a big chunk of my business involved setting up and managing my clients' servers for them. In fact, this was part of my sales pitch to clients. I'm not just going to build you a…
Find out with this handy flow chart. And beware the "exposure" of a "good portfolio piece".
Trendy software engineering management is a lot like trendy parenting, and both are harmful: It strikes me as silliness to think that one can create a universal methodology for something as complex as potty training an individual toddler,…
Most people wouldn't even think of file management as a feature of traditional computers; files are just always there, like grass or rocks, part of the landscape. It's not just that filesystems are ubiquitous. From a technical standpoint,…