: The Problem You're About to Solve for Agents Is the One You've Been Working Around With People The decision you’re making about agent infrastructure is more loaded than it looks. It’s …
: What's the language about your customers telling you - before the metrics do? Same language, a year later, opposite meaning. A company with product-market fit doesn’t ask its …
: Every company wants a paradigm shift. What’s getting funded is better tools. The change everyone is asking for sits at one level - what gets valued, what counts as progress, …
: What if the gap between shipping AI and seeing it move your business has nothing to do with how fast you’re moving? Your board, your investors, the conference you just attended - they’re right about the urgency. …
: What if the PMF that shaped you is what’s keeping you from finding the next one? Your company was built around a set of answers, how do you gain the perspective to find the new when …
: The assets and the constraint are the same thing You have real customers, real distribution, and committed people who built it all. So why is all …
: You’ve been here before Every major technology transition looks unsurvivable from inside it. That’s not a property of this …
: Your last PMF is now what's in the way Your last PMF is becoming your next constraint. Not because you built something broken. Because you …
: The normal moves don't work because you're solving the wrong problem You’ve shipped the AI features. You’ve run the strategy sessions. The effort is real. …
: What losing PMF looks like when you still have it Product market fit doesn’t announce its departure — the metrics still look right, the team is …
: A lens drawn from Carlota Perez A lens drawn from economic historian Carlota Perez’s work on how technology changes in waves — …
: Draft of a Pattern for when founder-led product stops scaling What happens when companies expand their product offerings and their product operating system …
: v2 of simple d3 with Meteor - now rendering individual records A second simple example of integrating D3 with Meteor, demonstrating reactive data syncing to …
: Simplest d3 + meteor example I could make A simple example demonstrating the integration of Meteor and D3, leveraging reactive data between …
: SNAP! - Programming for Kids SNAP! is a browser-based programming tool that builds on Scratch’s concepts, making it …
: Ad-Hoc Usability Testing With Craiglist Users #leanstartup How Food on the Table used Craigslist to recruit usability testers by crafting targeted ads based on …
: Moving on from Food on the Table & What's Next! After 3 1/2 years at Food on the Table, I am moving on to pursue consulting projects or a new …
: Recovering the Shine How I restored the shine of a Precision 18 - waxing, polishing, compound, sandpaper
: How would you benchmark the productivity of a lean-startup product development team? A brief pass at benchmarking the productivity of a product team
: Food on the Table is Hiring! Food on the Table is hiring - I’m looking for a great developer to work with us
: MC and Talk at Austin On Rails Tuesday, September 28, 2010 @ 7-9 PM An Austin On Rails meeting on September 28, 2010, will feature four talks, including one on …
: Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine Gotta love this... Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine.
: Skype Will Not Verify Phone - Google Voice Help FYI - we have a google voice number for Food on the Table -and forward it to our SkypeIn number. …
: Fix for: can't use fluid with campfire anymore... Now that 37signals centralized their user management, my existing Fluid-based campfire doesn’t …
: Installing nokogiri Slicehost's Ubuntu Hardy Here’s the steps to get nokogiri installed; sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install …
: For Leopard, installing Sphinx from ports with mysql binary from mysql Given I’ve installed sphinx And I’ve used mac port for the install When I run sphinx …
: Please vote for my SXSWi Panel "Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques" Last day to vote for my SXSWi panel; please vote! “Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, …
: iPhone Voicemail Badness - why-oh-why AT&T #fb Noticing that I haven’t received any new voicemails in over a week - and hearing rumors about …
: kanban development oversimplified + shiny bits on couchdb Lots of buzz lately about kanban / lean in software development. While watching this from the …
: FiveRuns at RailsConf/CabooseConf and taking folks to see Penn & Teller Attending RailsConf and/or CabooseConf? Join FiveRuns to see Penn & Teller perform at the Rio on …
: Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step O’Reilly and Eric Ries are doing an interesting webcast - Webcast: How to Build a Lean …
: Intriguing (and radical) approach on how to operate a business Check out “The Open Company - Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. It …
: Build a personal relationship manager on LinkedIn... maybe I’ve always wanted some simple ‘personal relationship manager’, i.e. the problem …
: Clarity in the cloud & congratulations to whurley Open source “evil genius” whurley has announced he will be writing a column for …
: Oh CouchDB, Why Do I Love Thee So...? Ok, so why are my friends and co-workers noticing my minor obsession about CouchDB? There’s a …
: Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03 housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last ... decade? years? # @juliegomoll - more of a tweak …
: @juliegomoll - more of a tweak... @juliegomoll - more of a tweak at those who ’left behind’ long-form-blogs and now only …
: housekeeping on my blog. remem... housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last … decade? years?
: not sleeping. the day is still... not sleeping. the day is still running through my head.
: Rails, Ruby and other Open Source Components - Better During the Downturn? With the economic downturn, financial pressures increases on technologuy budgets (whether …
: Obama '08 for iPhone Hot off the press - an iPhone app to accelerate the Obama ‘08 campaign! Thanks to my friend …
: "Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos", Blade Runner & Pseudo-Ghosts? Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos (via webware.com) is a stunning example of stitching …
: FiveRuns I haven’t even noted anything different here - but on Oct 1st ‘07, I joined FiveRuns as their VP …
: An interesting pattern to make a brief pitch I had an interesting discussion with Kelly Looney today regarding positioning. Based on his …
: Down To The Desktop Or Up Into The Clouds I think that my recent purchase of the iPhone has tipped the balance in quandry I’ve had. It …
: My profiles, managed by me... So if vertical social networks become popular, then the horizontal problem becomes intestering, e.g. …
: iPhone So I’ve made the plunge and bought an iPhone. Half the joy is in using such a beautifully …
: Infrastructure So in the physical world, there’s tremendous constraints placed on a system by existing …
: Excite Reunion Thanks to Julie, we had a great Excite.com reunion party last night at her house. Ostensibly, it was …
: MacFuse - Sweet Ok - so maybe it’s a sign of just how much a shiny-gadget-geek I am, but I love what’s …
: Sophie, Squeak, Croquet There seems to be more and more instances of platforms appearing which raise the level at which …
: TVShows Great idea - how to get TV shows, not how to see a bunch of randomly named bittorrent files. Another …
: Firedoodle - persistent whiteboard in your browser Nice tool, nice example of using Firefox as a platform, and nice example of how small ideas are …
: Startup enthusiasm (not) versus pragmatism I love the start-up environment - in part because of what happens when we ‘drink the …
: Inspiration on patterns and paradigms beyond OO A great audio program on experiential computing (IT Conversations: Ramesh Jain - Experimental …
: Two beautiful interfaces Two beautiful interfaces: a time machine Etsy Time Machine and a shop by color as novel ways to …
: Manage Shared Information and Their Shared Concepts Some of the assumptions that drive shared information and the shared concepts that underly them: …
: An Integrated Perspective on Software Development Some ramblings on software development A useful perspective on software devleopment is as an …
: Next Steps Towards a "Common Language" With experience, I have come to realize that is not sufficient to gather a diverse group of people …
: Specialists and generalists I think it’s pretty easy to convince ourselves that in many contexts, especially work, we are …
: Formal Versus Agile? You've Got It All Wrong! As I interpret it, the agile versus formal debate is generally treated as an either or question. For …
: A Light-Weight Critique of The Brain's User Interface In the article and in the interview excerpts (from the now-defunct Feed site) Harlan Hugh makes the …
: A Better Tool? As with many computerized things, I’ve been frustrated with the commercial state of the art …
: Reconciling Formal, Agile & No Processes How to reconcile formal, agile & no processes in a software development environment? Previously …
: What's Next In Modeling Tools? Based on the current state of the art with modeling tools today, there are a lot of potential …
: How can Model Driven Architecture Be Successful? How can model driven architecture (MDA) be successful (or any approach where higher levels of …