Wittgenstein, Harari, Ravikant, Plato: Thinking towards less anxiety

This is a confusing post about how guessing leads to anxiety, how that anxiety feels like it’s actually work, and then how anxiety at work can continue for years because it feels right. I didn’t realise that it…

Tricks to relearn the hacker/maker mindset

When I was young, I would make. At some point, I stopped making and learnt to manage…

I am bad at planning. So are you. [Book Review: Superforecasting]

Book-review and discussion of…

Don’t go hunting Heffalumps

HEFFALUMPS AND “SHOULD WE BUILD IT”?

Be like AWS: buy more cheese than you need. Sell the rest.

A deliberate, systematic strategy

Amazon, killing 3.6 million jobs, $8.9 billion in tax and shoplifters

The future of all jobs

Understanding the life of software

Software can be intangible and confusing. But analysing how it…

The Baseline: Numbers

The Baseline: Numbers is a project to bring together all the publicly available data on the software industry. While there are a lot of reports, surveys and radars out there it can be tedious to find and sort through them. Numbers does that.

The Software Infinity: how to be eternally optimistic