How Slack built a well loved product going against Peter Thiel and app fashion

If the user shakes the phone when your app is running what should it do?

Will users get platform…

Hapi Thanksgiving; It is about systems of nodes scaling, not node scaling

Not being a native, I still haven’t worked out everything Thanksgiving. It feels like a dry run for the holiday period, and being in retail it became game time.

Clarity not Arrogance

I was talking with a friend who mentioned that people often think of him as arrogant. I was surprised to hear this…

KPIs. OKRs. Do your measurements have a soul?

Measure measure measure. If you aren’t measuring what you are building then you are running blind and foolish. While it is key to measure according to your goals, it is important to keep the soul and purpose at the heart of why you are measuring, and…

Let people do; Asynchronous loading is for users not just computers

Perceived performance and using…

Tetris and software development

Meetings with too many people suck

Have too many people in a meeting and it sucks. Everyone knows this!

Building your mind, one brick at a time

“Reading and experience train your model of the world. And…

Your native app can be a platform

The pendulum of Web vs. native technology continues to swing, and…