Unicorns and bubbles

Square’s faltering march to an IPO has reinvigorated the debate about whether all of these ‘Unicorns’ are symptomatic of an investment bubble or not.

I do think there’s a bubble, though I don’t know how big it is.

Engineering Your Team

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.

Debt vs. Capital

In software we often talk about a metaphor of “debt”: decisions we make now that save immediate time or effort, but that compromise a system or product’s design in some way. What makes these choices debt is that they don’t just have a fixed cost, but actually incur “interest” in ongoing damage to…

This is not Negligence

I got a lot of feedback on my previous article on technical debt and negligence. It seems that calling people negligent stirs up quite some strong feelings.

I want to clear up some misunderstandings.

Why the way we look at technical debt is wrong

This post is cross-posted from bigeng.io — feel free to read there!

I’ll be straightforward at the start of this post: I firmly believe that the most important issue a company deals with is how it reconciles itself with…