Category: Product

  • That’s Your Problem

    That’s Your Problem

    Today, though, the ground has shifted. The upside to front-loading the process, to focusing deeply on the problem, and designing the right solution to it, is a kind of superpower.

  • Only as Much Chaos as You can Handle

    Only as Much Chaos as You can Handle

    Before the probabilistic age, we were the fuzzy ones. Quality systems existed to allow humans to be imperfect inside processes that were themselves predictable, supported and monitored by machines that behaved consistently. Governance was human, workloads were human, but the software and hardware beneath them, when given the same configuration and the same inputs, would…

  • It’s a Vibe

    So I thought I should really test myself, build something basic, because it isn’t fair or professional to keep telling people it isn’t as good as they are being told it is. So I paid for Copilot, and I dreamt up a project that I thought would be both simple and fun – and importantly…

  • The Changing Role of CTOs in Early Stage Organisations

    The Changing Role of CTOs in Early Stage Organisations

    I received a commissioned report on CTO compensation this morning—excellent reading. It’s well-researched, with a solid breadth of data across stages and sectors. But this slide on fiat compensation for tech leaders really stopped me. The numbers for Growth-stage and beyond match what I see in my own network. But Early-stage and Bootstrapped? Are there…

  • Product Market S*it(talk)

    Product Market S*it(talk)

    Working with investors, how many times a day or week do you hear the phrase – when they achieve Product Market Fit or some derivative of it?