In relentless pursuit

Technology has been the largest force multiplier to human endeavor in modern times, and effective management is a force multiplier to building technology businesses. This newsletter is about the craft of both — building technology products and building organizations that build these products.

Why I am writing this

Sometime in the past decade we hit an inflection point where Marc Andreessen’s famous aphorism that software is eating the world became no longer controversial. With it, came a Cambrian explosion of technologists in relentless pursuit of better technology to power a better world. A reliable way to improve a thing is by improving the machine building that thing: we need to be in relentless pursuit of improving our craft and the messy human organizations building these products. Writing about these messy topics will help me update my priors, and I hope reading it would have the same effect.

These bits floating about on the internet will also be breadcrumbs for historians of the future when they study the transformation caused by the emergence of software and the internet. We have too few scribes for our times, particularly those that have been on the inside.