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This piece belongs to the ongoing Founders Guide. I’m scribbling down everything I wish I’d had on my desk during […]

Part of the ongoing Founders Guide. I jot these notes down while the memories are still fresh, so you’re getting […]

This piece belongs to the ongoing Founders Guide—a collection of notes I’m assembling for first-year founders while the memories of […]

I still remember the first morning I woke up to an email from Stripe saying we’d crossed four figures in […]

This piece belongs to my ongoing Founders Guide. I’m jotting these notes while the memories of our first-year battles are […]

I still have the calendar invite from the day we pushed our very first MVP live — 03:47 AM, too […]

🚀 Founders Guide 2022 📚 Q&A for Startup Founders 📰 Previous Newsletter Issues 🛠️ How to be a better technical […]

This piece is part of the Technical Manager Guide. Think of it as field notes from someone who’s broken more […]

This piece belongs to the ongoing Technical Manager Guide. I’m writing it for leads who suddenly find themselves in charge […]

This piece is part of the ongoing Founders Guide. I’m jotting these notes while helping a handful of first-year startups wrestle […]

This piece belongs to the ongoing Founders Guide. I’m jotting these notes while helping first-year founders stay afloat — the things […]

This piece belongs to the Technical Manager Guide I’m slowly publishing for leads who want to scale without turning into […]

Tuesday’s stand-up started with the same sentence from two different teams — “The build suddenly takes fifteen minutes, what changed?” […]

🚀 Founders Guide 2022 📚 Q&A for Startup Founders 📰 Previous Newsletter Issues 🛠️ How to be a better technical […]

The first intern I ever coached arrived with an almost comical amount of enthusiasm. I had no onboarding checklist back […]

Update 2021: I first drafted this piece back in 2018, roughly eighteen months after I took over engineering at a […]