The Myth of the 10x Engineer
I've been called a 10x engineer - sometimes 20x. The variation in programmer productivity is real....
What Prodigy Taught Me About Walled Gardens
Prodigy invested $1 billion building walls that collapsed when the open internet arrived. The pattern has repeated with every major walled garden since....
The Rewrite Trap: Why 90% of Rewrites Fail
Software rewrites fail 90% of the time. The Netscape disaster proved it. Here's why incremental improvement beats the clean slate fantasy, and what to do instead....