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Software Architecture Humble Bundle Review
Humble bundles are just a huge grab bag of roughly related stuff — which is tough to work with. They’re great for getting access to a bunch of stuff in order to find out what you’re interested in or get a quick overview of a field. Here’s short reviews of a bunch of books I
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Default Alive or Default Dead
Lots of people are job-hunting these days. In conversations with friends about the companies they’re talking with, there’s a useful distinction to reflect on: Is the company default alive, or default dead? In other words, if everyone stopped writing new features, would the company immediately implode, or just sort of drift along? A default dead
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Haas Product Con 2024 Review
This was a 300 person conference put on by the Product Management Club at UC Berkeley’s MBA program. About half students, half professionals (heavy on UCB alumni). I heard of it through Rands Leadership Slack but most people that I talked with heard about it through Lenny’s PM List. I did not attend the late
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GTM is like SDLC
Craft construction and factory construction are different ways to achieve the same goal. If you want a table, you can craft one by selecting lumber and using a wide variety of carpentry skills to shape and sand and varnish a table. Or you can select an item from a table production factory. Personal craft is
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Small Data 2024 Review
This week I went to the Small Data conference. It was really interesting, here are some rough notes. Big Data is Not a Number Jordan Tigani, MotherDuckRuns over the history of cloud systems development: horizontal scale instead of vertical scale, tools to manage emergent complexity, frameworks to manage complex tools. Big data taxes: there’s a
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