AI & Technology
New Team Composition: Build/Relationships
July 2026 Our AI implementation has me reconsidering the team composition. I’ve generally viewed the team through two le...
Exception Math - The 1% That Decides Whether I Ever Hire Again
July 2026 Last week I was arguing with Claude about our org chart. Yes, I argue with Claude. It's the only teammate that...
The Second Biggest Game Changer for Us: Supabase
June 2026 Can’t you hear that Boom, ba-data, boom, boom, ba-data, base? We built that Supabase Boom, ba-data, boom, boom...
The Biggest Game Changer for Us: n8n
Our Biggest Game Changer Three months ago, I had never heard of this company. Now it’s integrated in nearly everything w...
The Hiring Freeze Nobody Announced
March 2026 Two weeks into March Madness and I'm already rethinking our hiring plans. If you missed the last two weeks, I...
AI Just Started A Cult
February 2026 AI is evolving at a dizzying pace, and nowhere is this more evident than in the rise of "agentic" AI. I wr...
The Most Common Mistake is to Optimize a Thing That Should Not Exist
After attending the White Out game against Oregon, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. James Franklin will not g...
Gonna Need New Haters, the Old Ones Are Starting to Like Me
September 2025 The Gambler, a Netflix documentary about Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, is fantastic. I grew up hati...
Behavioral Economics in Software Design
May 2025 We're redesigning LoanBoss this year and we're borrowing inspiration from an unexpected source: Daniel Kahneman...
Don’t Be a Tool
March 2025 You probably don’t remember Swatches, but these were all the rage in the 1980s. They were only worn by the co...