How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? There are a few different ways to do it but unfortunately, none bring a guarantee of success. Choose your own adventure. Let’s make a few assumptions: You are a founder, you have your idea, and you have your money. It is just you…

I’m a parent. I write about that too. I was thinking that the development of software has some interesting parallels. It starts with personality and DNA. All software has a personality; a voice. Usually it takes time to develop that but certainly it gets baked in by the team building…

I love building things but if I have to hear one more “engineer type” lead with “We gotta do this with [Ember|Angular|Node|Python|Ruby]” I’m gonna lose my mind. When was the last time you had a user (customer) tell you that they wouldn’t use your product because it was built with…

Before anyone sees a new TV series, there’s lot of work that takes place, often from lots of people. I’ve never worked on a TV series but I imagine that the process is somewhat similar to that of building software: Pre-Production: Come up with a basic plot; the story we are…

How do you decide what to build when you are just getting started? Having been a human my whole life (and now as a parent of relatively new humans), I am reasonably sure the human open source community has more information than the startup equivalent. With humans, the feature set…