In my latest blog, I’m sharing a collection of thought-provoking reads: mastering the Sell → Design → Build framework, exploring Netflix’s open-sourced Maestro, understanding why copying is key in design, unraveling lessons from a massive global outage, evaluating high-growth and high-churn product dynamics, celebrating frugal living, demystifying AI terms, capturing the essence of modern friendships, and the impact of AI on paywalls. Dive in!
- Sell → Design → Build: “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” –Sun Tzu I have come to believe that one framework is more important than any other in the pursuit of product market fit. It is called Sell, Design, Build. I learned it originally from…
- Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator: We are thrilled to announce that the Maestro source code is now open to the public! Please visit the Maestro GitHub repository to get started. If you find it useful, please give us a star. Maestro is…
- Copying is the way design works: What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
- The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers: Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shipped a routine rule definition change to all customers, and chaos followed as 8.5M machines crashed, worldwide. There are plenty of learnings for developers.
- Why high growth, high churn products never seem to work: yes, D30 ends up dominating over random social media spikes
- $656,000 of Frugal Things I Still Love Doing: – “I used to read Mr. Money Mustache”, some people say these days, “Until he got all rich and fancy so that he no longer understands the
- AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet: To help you better understand key terms in artificial intelligence, we’ve put together a list of some of the most common AI terms.
- How People Are Making Friendship Work *Right Now*: 28 Friend Group Interviews and Counting
- Why AI and a tiny text file mean you have to rethink your paywall: Out on the information superway a tiny little text file just got run over; the problem is the one left bleeding could be your media organisation. Upgrade