Against the grain. Questioning conventional wisdom, challenging industry consensus, and saying what others won't.
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Startups die from ego before they die from competition. Pride that can't hear feedback, founders who can't fire themselves, and the delusion that vision equals execution. 45 years of watching it happe...
Technical blog posts were searchable, skimmable, and copy-pasteable. Video tutorials are none of these. The shift happened for economic reasons, not educational ones....
Debt implies payback. You won't. It compounds faster than interest. Every startup that says 'we'll clean it up after we raise' never does....
After 45 years in tech, I know I work faster alone. The collaboration-industrial complex says more interaction is always better. My shipped code says otherwise....
I've been called a 10x engineer - sometimes 20x. The variation in programmer productivity is real. But the way Silicon Valley uses the concept has damaged how organizations build teams....
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