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• How Founders Move Past Their Carrying Limit May 28, 2026
• The Incumbent's Unexpected Unfair Advantage May 28, 2026
• What if the disadvantages of being an incumbent have quietly inverted into an unfair advantage - and the questions are whether the company you scaled can recognize it and can hold a problem that doesn't fit any seat at the table? May 14, 2026
• What if the discipline of deleting code is the easy half - and letting go of the company you built around defending it is the work? May 12, 2026
• The Problem You're About to Solve for Agents Is the One You've Been Working Around With People May 7, 2026
• What's the language about your customers telling you - before the metrics do? May 4, 2026
• Every company wants a paradigm shift. What’s getting funded is better tools. Apr 28, 2026
• What if the gap between shipping AI and seeing it move your business has nothing to do with how fast you’re moving? Apr 21, 2026
• What if the PMF that shaped you is what’s keeping you from finding the next one? Apr 14, 2026
• The assets and the constraint are the same thing Apr 7, 2026
• You’ve been here before Mar 31, 2026
• Your last PMF is now what's in the way Mar 24, 2026
• The normal moves don't work because you're solving the wrong problem Mar 24, 2026
• What losing PMF looks like when you still have it Mar 24, 2026
• A lens drawn from Carlota Perez Mar 24, 2026
• Draft of a Pattern for when founder-led product stops scaling Jan 22, 2026
• v2 of simple d3 with Meteor - now rendering individual records Jun 8, 2013
• Simplest d3 + meteor example I could make Jun 5, 2013
• SNAP! - Programming for Kids Apr 14, 2013
• Ad-Hoc Usability Testing With Craiglist Users #leanstartup Mar 19, 2013
• Moving on from Food on the Table & What's Next! Mar 14, 2013
• Recovering the Shine Jul 15, 2012
• How would you benchmark the productivity of a lean-startup product development team? Feb 8, 2012
• Food on the Table is Hiring! Sep 20, 2010
• MC and Talk at Austin On Rails Tuesday, September 28, 2010 @ 7-9 PM Sep 20, 2010
• Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine Aug 20, 2010
• Skype Will Not Verify Phone - Google Voice Help Aug 18, 2010
• Fix for: can't use fluid with campfire anymore... Jan 19, 2010
• Installing nokogiri Slicehost's Ubuntu Hardy Sep 7, 2009
• For Leopard, installing Sphinx from ports with mysql binary from mysql Sep 4, 2009
• Please vote for my SXSWi Panel "Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques" Sep 4, 2009
• iPhone Voicemail Badness - why-oh-why AT&T #fb Jul 27, 2009
• kanban development oversimplified + shiny bits on couchdb May 29, 2009
• FiveRuns at RailsConf/CabooseConf and taking folks to see Penn & Teller May 1, 2009
• Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step Apr 29, 2009
• Intriguing (and radical) approach on how to operate a business Mar 24, 2009
• Build a personal relationship manager on LinkedIn... maybe Jan 22, 2009
• Clarity in the cloud & congratulations to whurley Jan 7, 2009
• Oh CouchDB, Why Do I Love Thee So...? Dec 21, 2008
• Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03 Dec 3, 2008
• @juliegomoll - more of a tweak... Dec 3, 2008
• housekeeping on my blog. remem... Dec 3, 2008
• not sleeping. the day is still... Dec 2, 2008
• Rails, Ruby and other Open Source Components - Better During the Downturn? Oct 8, 2008
• Obama '08 for iPhone Oct 2, 2008
• "Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos", Blade Runner & Pseudo-Ghosts? Aug 14, 2008
• FiveRuns Mar 1, 2008
• An interesting pattern to make a brief pitch Aug 8, 2007
• Down To The Desktop Or Up Into The Clouds Aug 1, 2007
• My profiles, managed by me... Aug 1, 2007
• iPhone Jul 28, 2007
• Infrastructure Jun 26, 2007
• Excite Reunion Jun 24, 2007
• MacFuse - Sweet Jun 18, 2007
• Sophie, Squeak, Croquet May 24, 2007
• TVShows Apr 17, 2007
• Firedoodle - persistent whiteboard in your browser Mar 28, 2007
• Startup enthusiasm (not) versus pragmatism Mar 13, 2007
• Inspiration on patterns and paradigms beyond OO Oct 6, 2005
• Two beautiful interfaces Oct 6, 2005
• Manage Shared Information and Their Shared Concepts Apr 19, 2005
• An Integrated Perspective on Software Development Apr 19, 2005
• Next Steps Towards a "Common Language" Dec 9, 2004
• Specialists and generalists Dec 9, 2004
• Formal Versus Agile? You've Got It All Wrong! Jan 13, 2003
• A Light-Weight Critique of The Brain's User Interface Sep 10, 2002
• A Better Tool? Aug 15, 2002
• Reconciling Formal, Agile & No Processes May 23, 2002
• What's Next In Modeling Tools? May 21, 2002
• How can Model Driven Architecture Be Successful? Apr 20, 2002

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