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Today I'm launching Scrumsheet , a Scrum workflow app. Unlike other apps, Scrumsheet keeps all your data in a single Google Sheet. Does this count as a "serverless" app? Probably; if you consider apps built on Firebase to be serverless, then Scrumsheet is too. What excites me most about this project
In this edition of What CTOs Worry About I’m going to take a little departure from the norm. Instead of summarizing common wisdom and advice from other CTOs, I’m going to share with you my personal technique for finding and hiring great remote talent. Over the last decade
We’re five months into coronavirus lockdown, and the brief honeymoon period of newly-minted WFH happiness is waning. Employees are demotivated, anxious, and starting to show signs of cabin fever. So this week’s CTO Worry is: Remote Work Morale. Specifically, CTOs are worried about the downstream effects of forcing
At an early-stage startup the CEO and CTO do the bulk of the “product work”: positioning, planning, developing, iterating, and so on. The team grows and eventually they hire their first PM. The product manager works with the engineers (and sometimes with sales) to help flesh out requirements and acceptance
You're scared of failure, so you don't try. You don't try, so you never succeed. You never succeed, so you have no confidence. You have no confidence, so you're scared of failure. You're scared of failure, so you don't try. You don't try, so you never succeed. You never succeed,
Last week’s Twitter hack has the tech leadership world abuzz with worried CTOs. This conversation comes up about once per year, typically after a high profile security incident. The core of What CTOs Worry About is: how do I foster a healthy security culture. Conventional Wisdom Says… As with
Welcome to What CTOs Worry About : a newsletter in which I revisit a decade of conversations with CTOs about their problems and the solutions they’ve tried. I’ll also incorporate my own experience as a CTO and entrepreneur, and from time to time I’ll interview my friends. Tweet
I've been teaching my whole life. I started out teaching music theory at a music school. I tutored math and physics. I've taught courses on JavaScript. I've also taught more technical topics like electromechanical control systems and machine learning. Over the years I've seen many students succeed, but I've also
I love great debugging stories. There's the classic one about the uninsulated floor tile, of course, but I have a good one of my own to share.
Here's a story about Steve, the CTO of a Series-B startup called SaaSCo. It's a story I've heard a dozen times before. To me, this story is now a fable, a cautionary tale.
The build vs buy debate comes up a lot on tech teams. In short, this debate is about whether the team should build a piece of functionality in-house or buy a third-party service, API, or library to fulfill the product need. Lots of considerations factor in to the debate, but
I've written and published two books on machine learning, both with tech publishers. I'd like to share some of the more interesting things I learned about the tech publishing industry.
The Hands-on Machine Learning with JavaScript book teaches ML algorithms from first principles to JS devs for use in the browser, node.js, and mobile apps.