A Judgement Amplifier

At a recent Austin CTO Club meeting someone remarked that AI tool use amplifies the quality of the technology development team members. That …

Making the Cut

“I put the ticket in more than two years ago and it still isn’t done. When will you get to it?” Our Product lead …

Prototype vs Implementation

The Austin CTO Club recently met to discuss Managing C-Suite Expectations. One specific point received little attention that evening, and in …

Document-Driven Development

In recent months I’ve spoken to many people about inverting the model and coding my docs rather than documenting my code. Today I …

Defining Hypotheses

Startup founders must engage in a lot of experimental learning to find and confirm their markets. The vision matters, of course, but it also …

MVPs Reveal Preference

Paul Samuelson introduced the concept of “revealed preference” in a 1938 article entitled A Note on the Pure Theory of …

Cheap and Cheerful

If you shop at Costco you are likely aware that they give away boxes of many shapes and sizes. Many of these are reinforced to protect …

Letters in LaTeX

Once upon a time I did a great deal of work with $\TeX{}$ and $\LaTeX{}$. I implemented many elements that were not broadly supported at …

Google Sheet Sort

Today I learned about the sort function in Google Sheets. This came in handy to show different sorted views of one sheet on another. …

Hot-Potato Package Delivery

I ordered something from Walmart. They shipped it to me. Their delivery tracking said that USPS handled the final delivery. And USPS says …