Review: The Fund
I read Ray Dalio's Principles back in 2018. Without much knowledge beforehand of Bridgewater Associates or its emblematic founder, I found the book to be a reasonable autobiography paired with some scattershot advice....
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Software Business Longevity
Reading about Artifact's announcement of their imminent shutdown was a bummer. Rereading some of the media coverage of the app when it came out of beta a year ago, much of what the founders said at the time made sense. Social networks, particularly when there are already a handful of entrenched, mature services,...
Google's Villain Arc
It seems so long ago when Google was the scrappy but growing technology upstart. It made sense of the morass that was the internet in the 2000s and early 2010s, and along the way rewrote...
Another Management Malpractice
Whenever an individual or a company garners fame and fortune, there's often intense interest in their processes and behaviors. The thinking is that there's some sort of secret sauce or hidden wisdom in how they operate, so you , dear reader, can follow in their steps perhaps you can share in some...
Verticalizing the Automotive Industry
Over winter break, we took a road trip from the Bay Area down to Death Valley National Park and the Vegas + LA metro areas for a week. As I traded a gas-powered Volvo XC90 for...
Features ↔︎ Tech Debt Tradeoffs
This is a bit of old news at this point, but I can't help but be amused by this retelling of a small part of the ongoing Twitter drama: Geohot wants to “refactor” everything. Elno explains to him that if he doesn’t launch features they’ll go bankrupt. “Why, what’s the...