‘Resilience’ is a term that has been used for a long time and in several different ways. It was first used in to describe a property of timber, and to explain why some types of wood were able to accommodate sudden and severe loads without …

Karl Wiegers in The Startup Jun 14 · 11 min read

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I have worked in three venture capital firms over the last thirty-three years and am intimately familiar with the performance of the fifteen (ish) venture funds raised and invested by these three firms. Much of what I have written about …

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Why is it that some people seem to make constant progress in their professional and personal lives, while others appear to be doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over?

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I have been coaching several experienced software engineers to further grow professionally, since transitioning to being an engineering manager. I have noticed a few skills that people often underestimate the importance of developing. …

Dave Bailey Apr 9

/prōˌseləˈrāSH(ə)n/ noun 1. The acceleration of acceleration

Our goal with product management at Gatsby is to create an ongoing and iterative product discovery and development process that allows us to ship customer value quickly and with confidence in our product–market fit. There are a lot of ways …

Jun 27, 2019

There are a lot of work “rituals” that suck so badly you want to hunt down and interrogate who ever invented them. The dreaded weekly status email is one of them. The weekly 1:1 between a boss and a direct report can be another. What should …

Gatsby’s core philosophy can be divided into three parts.

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I know some managers say “don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions,” but personally I don’t subscribe to it.

Arthur Holland Michel | Longreads | June 2019 | 15 minutes (3,946 words)

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This is Part 5, the conclusion of a series. Part 1 is The Journey to a Content Mesh*; Part 2 is* Unbundling of the CMS*; Part 3 is* The Rise of Modern Web Development; Part 4 is Why Mobile Performance is Crucial.

This is Part 4 of a series. Part 1 is The Journey to a Content Mesh*; Part 2 is* Unbundling of the CMS*; Part 3 is* The Rise of Modern Web Development.

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Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code.

“Rugged” describes software development organizations that have a culture of rapidly evolving their ability to create available, survivable, defensible, secure, and resilient software. Rugged organizations use competition, cooperation, and …

January 29, 2019

Our VP of Engineering, Rukmini Reddy, shares the pivotal events that helped shape her path and underpin her leadership philosophy.

What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and …

Culture is what you celebrate. Rituals are the tools you use to shape culture.

David Lush Mar 26

Before you pull a user story into development, it’s crucial to have a conversation to clarify and confirm the acceptance criteria.

February 2002

Dear map people,

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

Martin Fowler

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Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as spies in disguise in “The Americans.” (Eric Liebowitz/FX)

One of the most common and cardinal mistakes startups often make when building a product is not conducting adequate market research.

Natalie Sandman May 20

We look to leaders to make consistent decisions, keep a steady course, and align an organization’s culture. But leaders typically face multiple demands that conflict with one another, and it’s a mistake to assume there are cut-and-dried …

Ben Dalziel May 10

Several people are typing.

Adam Hawkins Apr 29, 2018

One of the paradoxes of today’s internet platforms is they are vastly automated, and have no human control or interaction over what any given person sees, and yet they are also totally dependent on human behavior, because what they’re …

Note: Since this was published in 2015, some of our ideas have evolved, our revenue and burn rate have both increased, and our orientation has changed. But, as you’ll read later in the post, we still hope that people stay at Carta for a …

“The question is not how fast tech companies will become car companies, but how fast we will become a tech company.” This is how the board member of a global car company recently articulated the central issue facing most incumbents today: …

I never met Bill Campbell. To be honest, I had never even heard about him until I heard Eric Schmidt speak his praises on the the Tim Ferris Podcast.

Some leaders are fantastic at “team branding”—communicating about their group in ways that give the rest of the organization a good understanding of what the team is all about. Others are squarely focused on “team public relations”—telling …

Things started to click into place for Jamie Davila after she discovered she was on the autism spectrum five years ago this summer.

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”