In 2022 I started writing some longer articles as well as new blog posts. Because I wanted a new format, with more fine-tuning, special control over image processing, and a print-specific PDF, I created a new website: https://longform.asmartbear.com/ Please join me there ..read more

When you go full-speed in one direction for a hot minute, then slam on the brakes and do something else, and keep doing that, and it’s actually the correct course of action ..read more

A summary of nearly everything I think about building companies ..read more

Do you feel the crushing weight of disadvantages facing every new company? No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine rankings, no tuned advertising, no incredible executive team, no NPS, no strategy. How do the successful startups rise above all that? Do they solve all those problems at once, or at least quickly? No. Here’s what to do instead ..read more

There’s always a lot of luck in startups, but there’s ways to better capture upside, and better mitigate downside ..read more

Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies ..read more