The Myth of the 10x Engineer
Stop hunting for 10x engineers. The variation in programmer productivity is real, but team systems beat individual heroics....
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 Most Rewrites Fail
Most software rewrites fail quietly, absorbed back into the org or cancelled. Why incremental improvement beats the clean slate....