#DAO is a next-generation organization design that will demand fresh study to understand how this new type of organization affects present ideas. If you are planning to build a #DAO , visit

So much of design is digital systems design is organization design, we should be talking about the aesthetics of organizations.

What a mistake it is to title-chase when choosing a startup 🤦🏻‍♀️. SVP at a company goes nowhere is SVP of nothing. Early teammate at a company that becomes a $10B+ platform biz, grows into a staff engineer, an SVP of product, an extraordinary leader. Choose company, not title.

😓 the number of companies out there that won't pay $20K a year for off-the-shelf SaaS, but then spend unlimited engineering effort building internal tooling themselves and then complain they don't have enough engineering capacity

Brave thing I heard in a board meeting this week: “I don’t know if we have a good answer to that, yet.” Admitting you *don’t know* the answer is hugely productive. We’re trying to find, together, the important things we don’t know the answers to Striking how rarely it is said

Technology cost curves: the speed with which solar power cost fell beat the predictions by ~6X https://nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-should-you-have-kids.html?referringSource=articleShare... See more

if you're a freemium business and you don't have one/few-click upgrades to team accounts when people hit feature walls, what could you possibly be doing in engineering that takes higher priority it's the highest possible intent, pls let me buy

Today @basetenco open sourced Truss, a standard for packaging models built in any framework for sharing and deployment in any environment, local or production. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32277894... See more

4 requirements for building good software - understanding of user value - taste - ability to execute - willingness to keep grinding until it is valuable and good/tasteful