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Kimsia
Jason Cohen (@asmartbear.com)
bsky.app
This practice gained attention in the early 2000s through the ideas of Alistair Cockburn and his notion of a “walking skeleton.” More recently, it has been adopted by those employing MVP (minimum viable product) as a strategy for risk reduction.
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
enabling incremental development
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It’s about deliberately choosing to be different. —Michael Porter
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Stop thinking of product-market fit as a yes or no question—but instead as a process of finding fit with more segments of the market.
Lenny Rachitsky • A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B
Use this as way to connect ideas across conversations, conversations across projects
Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
learning.oreilly.com
Lambda vs. Kappa Architecture. A Guide to Choosing the Right Data Processing Architecture for Your Needs - nexocode
Dorota Owczareknexocode.com
How to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others
Andrej Karpathyx.comOrg debt is just as dangerous as tech debt but is talked about much less
Org debt builds up every time a company operates without discipline:
- Inconsistent principles for promotions and comp
- Hiring without a clear scope for the new... See more
Dan Hockenmaiersubstack.comOrg debt is just as dangerous as tech debt but is talked about much less
Org debt builds up every time a company operates without discipline:
- Inconsistent principles for promotions and comp
- Hiring without a clear scope for the new role
- Trying new operating models but not sticking to them
- Allowing meeting creep
In the short term, it's always easier to just let this stuff happen. But in the long term, org debt will destroy a company. Execution will slow down, people will get frustrated, and the best ones will leave.
If you're considering joining a company, assess org discipline in the same way you'd assess their metrics and team.