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Technical co-founders face unique pressures: irreversible architecture decisions, constant translation duty, recognition gaps, and always-on responsibility. 54% of founders burned out last year - for ...
How a homemade web crawler in 1993 crashed a Los Alamos server, the birth of robots.txt, and why AI companies are breaking the web etiquette that held for 30 years....
How text adventure games like Zork shaped my understanding of software design, interface thinking, and the power of constraints to fuel creativity....
When patents matter (defensive portfolios, M&A leverage, licensing revenue) and when they're a distraction. The top 10 AI patent holders control nearly half of industry IP....
CompuServe pioneered email, forums, and chat for 3 million users before the web. The community-building lessons from that era—invested moderators, friction as a feature, human-scale communities—remain...
Environmental destruction, greater fool economics, regulatory arbitrage, and ransomware's favorite payment method. The SEC was right all along....
Over 45 years, I noticed a pattern: I keep building things that later become billion-dollar companies. This is less about timing and more about recognizing when something you built for yourself might ...
The hardest skill in software engineering isn't writing code - it's knowing when to delete it. Stories of systems that improved by subtraction....
I joined the Navy at 18 and got deployed to Desert Shield right out of boot camp. No combat heroics - just years on ships, traveling the world, and being part of the Missouri's decommissioning crew. T...
What I learned doing technical due diligence on blockchain startups seeking funding. The technology works - for exactly one use case. Everything else fails the database test....
Netscape's IPO established the template for modern startup culture: growth over profit, massive early valuations, and boom-bust rhythms. Understanding that August day in 1995 helps explain why startup...
ICQ invented instant messaging and reached 100 million users. Then it died through corporate neglect, software bloat, and missed mobile transition. Every messaging platform today faces the same forces...
