The True Value of Startups: Network and Learning
After leaving my last startup gig at Opto, I got a text from two of my former colleagues that reminded me why the real value of working at a startup goes way …
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why not do something magical with your coding skills?
Last week, I built a Zydeco and Cajun events calendar for someone who's been keeping the Bay Area dance scene alive for years. Total time invested: 3 hours. …
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Quality is the only moat left
The marginal cost of plausible bullshit is now effectively zero. When everyone can publish and AI handles the grunt work, what survives? Resonance.
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LLMs let you show, not tell
The Agile Manifesto nailed it: Working software over comprehensive documentation. Twenty years later, we're still writing specs nobody reads.
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Skip the API circus: /standup-report basics in 5 minutes, spend the rest of your time on storytelling
Yesterday I needed standup reports. Instead of being stuck in SDK hell, I created a Claude slash command that took 5 minutes to set up using MCP.
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Mechanical timers & reaching for complexity instead of better solutions
Why engineers reach for complexity when a mechanical timer does the job
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Applying Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles to Writing & Content
Walk into any marketing department or agency and you'll find a peculiar phenomenon: rooms full of people talking about content instead of creating it. Coming …
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Putting it on Autopilot: Five Areas You Can Actually Fire-and-Forget as a Startup CISO
Stop cosplaying enterprise security. Here's what you can actually automate without losing sleep - from compliance to endpoint security.
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Security Theatre & What Actually Protects Your Code
Your SOC 2 badge won't stop hackers. Here's what will - a hard look at security theater versus practices that actually work.
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Why Technical Leaders Need to Think Like Marketers
Your code is elegant. Your architecture is sound. So why is nobody funding your project? Learn how to sell technical initiatives internally.
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Skronk and Skreigh: Building an Irish Tune Practice Toolkit
A Python tool for managing Irish traditional music practice sessions, extracting tune sets from recordings, and creating Spotify playlists with multiple …
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When Your Quote Collection Looks Like a Junk Drawer
Learn how Claude Code automated the cleanup of 1300+ messy quotes into a standardized format. Transform years of copy-pasted wisdom into a working …
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Using Slack Shortcuts and LLMs to question everything
Using Slack Shortcuts and LLMs to question everything
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