Cat Herder and Coder
You Don’t Know Yet Founders don t know what problem they re solving yet, and neither do any of their customers, and the annoying part is that this is not actually bad news, because if you stay in it long enough, you... Read more The post The Product Is Bait appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
A founder told me last week that his chatbot understands him better than most people he works with, and he wasn t joking. He had been alone in his house for the better part of a year building an app on... Read more The post The Million-Line MVP appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
I ve been thinking about all the wrong things when it comes to AI writing code. Everyone else seems to be too. Job displacement. Security vulnerabilities. The ten-times-faster developer who now bills the same and delivers four times as much. These... Read more The post The Internet Doesn t Have Enough Love In It (And How We Can Fix It Easily) appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
I spend a lot of time generating images these days for presentations. My typical workflow is fairly scientific: I ask Midjourney to produce a relatively cute image of a frog, a toad, a robot, or some other vaguely anthropomorphic creature... Read more The post Image generation comparison from February 2026 appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
or, how to survive due diligence without screaming into a pillow (too often) On January 1st, 2026, Sourcetoad was acquired by Thompson Holdings. That part’s public now, and I can say, I couldn’t have hoped for a better outcome. We... Read more The post Things I Wish I Knew Before Selling My Company appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
Last year I read Cal Newport s really interesting book, Slow Productivity, and walked away with a couple of interesting ideas, and one that I started recommending to my direct reports: the visible backlog. The concept is simple. Let people see... Read more The post I Think I Broke Some Of My Team (A Little) With AI appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
In Part 1, I talked about who comes to our offsites, when we run them, and why a good pickleball court is almost as important as a good agenda. Now let’s get into what actually happens once everyone is in... Read more The post Running Executive Offsites Without Losing Your Mind (Part 2) appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
Running an offsite is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you actually try to do it. Then you realize it’s more like attempting to teach a cat how to swim.. like, it s possible, but the trial and error... Read more The post Running Executive Offsites Without Losing Your Mind (Part 1) appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
You remember the good old days, right? When email scams were delightfully absurd. The kind of nonsense you’d read aloud to your coworkers for a laugh. “A Nigerian prince wants to send me $42 million?” Fantastic! I’ve always wanted to... Read more The post The Rise of Boring Scams: AI is Killing the Nigerian Prince appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .
Let’s start with a universal truth: every developer, when encountering a piece of existing code, immediately thinks, “Who wrote this trash?” And if the answer is “me,” the follow-up is “Well, golly-damn, how I’ve grown since then.” It’s instinct. Like... Read more The post All Working Software Is Legacy Software appeared first on Greg Ross-Munro .