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One of my favorite podcasts ( EconTalk ) recently interviewed the author of The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups , Colin Fisher. There were two things about this excellent interview that stood out to me and merit further mulling on my part. If you talk to me much about management, you’ll know that I’m pretty big on team trust and psychological safety . However,…
The Woke Right Stands At the Door - by Jonathan Rauch If you’re a thinking moderate, the convergence of magical thinking on both the woke left and the alt-right is hard to miss. EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor’s office | Hacker News Comments on HN re: EHRs; pretty fascinating. Why Blue States Can’t Have Nice Things - by Jacob Savage Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So…
The perverse incentives of Vibe Coding A common approach to minimize overly verbose code output is to force the LLM to first plan changes and ask permission to continue. Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity From idea to app: Introducing Stitch, a new way to design UIs- Google Developers Blog “Stitch is an experiment in using LLMs to…
The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There What an incredible read, on so many levels. Think more about what to focus on - by Henrik Karlsson The Road to Campus Serfdom – John O. McGinnis “Ironically, the left, now alarmed by the federal government’s intrusive reach, bears direct responsibility for crafting the very legal weapons wielded against the universities it…
Why Americans Are Working Less Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains. How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors dltHub: ELT as Python Code Lightweight Python code to move data Meeting people. | Irrational Exuberance To future entrepreneurs in health tech | by Mark Cavage |…
“Whenever you find yourself saying something for a second time (to a second audience or in a second situation), it is highly likely that you will send up saying it again and again in the future. To vastly improve the quality of the communication and reduce the amount of time that you spend communicating the information, write it down . — Matt Mochary in “The Great CEO…
I have a love/hate relationship with LinkedIn. It is full of useless noise, but it’s a great way to keep up with colleagues and interesting people working in my field. Here are two major frustrations with the platform that diminish its utility to me. Like most social media, the signal-to-noise ratio on LinkedIn is quite low. Most posts are either self-congratulatory, AI slop, or simply some…
Intelligence and individual differences in astrological belief. “Of our psychological measures we find intelligence, as measured with Wordsum, to have the largest effect size, negatively predicting belief in astrology. Education also predicts disbelief, supporting the “superficial knowledge” hypothesis. Measures of religiosity and spirituality had null effects, in contradiction of the…
This serves as documentation for my future self as well as an explanation that might be useful for others. If you want to set up a Hugo-based blog that creates a nice static site and publishes without too much work, then this is one way to do it. There are a few components: The Blogging Framework (how posts get created) The UI Automatic Publishing Automatic Deployment The Blogging Framework…
How Progressives Froze the American Dream “…. the freedom to choose one’s city or community has become a privilege of class.” The End of Programming as We Know It – O’Reilly Pretty much the best summary of where things are going. Of course I would like this, though – it confirms my biases. AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt - Ars Technica I…
2024 Retrospective (Creo) When I ended my time at Stratasan in March of 2023, my original goal was to stick to a lighter working schedule that allowed me to spend more time with my (rather large-ish) family. After committing over a decade to a startup, I was ready for a change of pace for a time. I had two major goals in mind coming into 2024: Make “small bets” on side projects that…
My transition from lead developer to engineering manager to lead of leads took shape over about a decade. As my responsibilities increased, it became more and more important to manage my own time well. This included not only using my time effectively, but also prioritizing the right things to work on. As a manager, the bulk of my time was spent in meetings and one-on-ones, but those meetings often…
A few weeks ago, I asked on LinkedIn why there aren’t more companies in the Southeast started by engineers . It prompted a lot of great conversations both online and offline. The tl;dr: I’m starting a group in Nashville for engineers-turned-entrepreneurs. You can sign up or read more about the details at techfounder.community . What is the Tech Founder Community? Taken from the website…
Since leaving Stratasan (acquired by Syntellis) in March of 2023 I started out doing some advisory and technical due diligence work for investors. I’m still doing advisory and diligence work, but I’ve also found demand for my help as a fractional CTO. What’s a fractional CTO? You might as well ask, “What’s a Chief Technology Officer (CTO)?” It varies a lot from…
From 2011 to 2019, the engineering team at Stratasan (where I served as CTO) worked from home at most once a week. In March of 2020, that all changed and we went 100% distributed. Like many small companies in the before-times, we worked out of an office with a small number of conference rooms. We used shared calendars to book the rooms. If a meeting went over time, participants had to wrap up and…
After wrapping up more than a decade at Stratasan, I’m now working with startup and early stage companies as an advisor as well as providing technical due diligence to investors. My work is performed with Creo Advisory, LLC . Advisory Work While at Stratasan I found myself doing a lot of things I hadn’t done before (as one does when you grow a company from two to about a hundred…
I read a recent post from Roy Rapoport titled, “Being Right Doesn’t Matter.” I’ll probably butcher it by summarizing it in one line, so I suggest you go read it first (it’s only a few paragraphs). Ultimately, he makes the point that “being right doesn’t matter if you can’t build consensus.” I wholeheartedly agree with this. As I was reading his…
As I am nearing the end of my tenure at the company I co-founded a decade ago, I thought it would be useful to share some of the books that were influential to me as I went from engineer to a lead-of-leads. Code Complete by Steve McConnell This book probably feels a bit dated as it was published in 2004. However, I found this very useful early in my engineering career as I was learning to build…
(I used to blog at dailytechnology.net and will keep the old Jekyll-based blog around just for historical purposes.) In 2022, I ended a long tenure working for Stratasan, the company that I co-founded with Jason Moore back in 2011. It has been a huge part of my career and I doubt I will ever get to experience anything like it again. 1 I say that not because it was a successful company but because…
Hi! 👋🏻 My name is Brian and I’m an engineering lead, technology advisor, and community member of Nashville, Tennessee. My family (wife and six kids) have called Nashville home since 2009. Previously, we lived in Queens, NY. I have an extensive background in software engineering, engineering leadership, healthcare technology, product management, security and compliance, and business…