newsletter articles
🎁 What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks
5 min read
09 July 2024🕶 Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
8 min read
16 May 2024🔨 I’m sorry
5 min read
09 May 2024📉 Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return
7 min read
30 April 2024🏆 10x Engineers
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20 April 2024🤯 Mental Health in Software Engineering
5 min read
31 March 2024😱 Why software projects fail
8 min read
14 March 2024🤫 Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior
5 min read
20 February 2024💻 Startup Infrastructure: Scaling from Zero to Enterprise
8 min read
03 February 2024🔬 Healthy Code Reviews
5 min read
14 January 2024🔐 Security at Startup
8 min read
24 December 2023🧳 Handling Process Debt in IT
9 min read
10 December 2023😵 Postmortems in Software Development
12 min read
22 November 2023👻 Every software is messy and has skeletons
3 min read
18 November 2023🤝 Networking as an introvert CTO
6 min read
19 October 2023🗄️ Database Migrations
9 min read
01 October 2023☝️ Asking questions the right way
5 min read
14 September 2023🏰 Aging Code
5 min read
05 September 2023🎭 Managing difficult software engineers
14 min read
14 August 2023👾 What does a CTO actually do?
8 min read
21 July 2023🙏 Being a good mentor – a developers guide
5 min read
08 July 2023📚 Healthy Documentation
5 min read
11 June 2023🕒 Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
11 min read
01 May 2023💩 Bullsh*t Jobs
5 min read
01 April 2023🎓 Product Owner vs Project Managers
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12 March 2023⚖️ Build vs Buy: age old dilemma
5 min read
05 March 2023📜 Contracts you should never sign
6 min read
27 January 2023🥷 Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering
7 min read
06 January 2023📢 The silent majority
4 min read
29 August 2022🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset
5 min read
06 August 2022🌈 Hedonic Treadmill
6 min read
26 July 2022💂♂️ Fake it till you make it
7 min read
19 July 2022⛓ Implementing Atomic Habits in IT
9 min read
11 July 2022🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round
7 min read
04 July 2022🔬 Building a side-project
5 min read
28 June 2022🏆 Promotion-based development
5 min read
20 June 2022✍️ Being an Amateur
5 min read
14 June 2022📈 The Toxic Grind
5 min read
06 June 2022🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day?
2 min read
16 May 2022🎭 Owning up to your mistakes
4 min read
19 April 2022🥇 The unfair advantage
5 min read
17 March 2022⛳ Moving Forward in times of uncertainty
5 min read
07 March 2022Most Read
🦸♂️ Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup
10 min read
12 April 2021🕸️ How to build remote teams properly
12 min read
26 June 2021🏄♂️ Self-Organizing Teams
7 min read
17 December 2021Popular Questions
How much equity should a CTO ask for?
5 min read
10 June 2022How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit?
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23 July 2023Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way
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10 July 2022