The Technical Due Diligence Checklist
A comprehensive checklist for evaluating startup technology: architecture, code quality, infrastructure, team, and security. Based on patterns from evaluating dozens of startups....
Small Language Models Will Eat Enterprise AI
Gartner predicts task-specific AI models will be used 3x more than general-purpose LLMs by 2027. Why latency, cost, and privacy push enterprises toward SLMs....
The Local-First Renaissance
Local-first software puts your data on your device first. The cloud becomes optional. As CRDTs mature, the best apps feel like we've rediscovered something we forgot....
Every Dependency Is Technical Debt
Dependencies are liabilities, not assets. From left-pad breaking the internet to Log4j's endemic vulnerability, every package you add expands your attack surface and maintenance burden....
Why AI Agents Can't Remember (And What's Changing)
Current AI agents don't learn - they retrieve. New research on reinforcement learning for memory could change that. Understanding why your AI agent keeps making the same mistakes....
Computers Are Cheap, Developers Are Expensive
Why premature optimization wastes developer time. The economics of knowing when code is good enough and when performance actually matters....
The Anatomy of High-Velocity Teams
The traits that high-performing engineering teams share have nothing to do with methodology certifications. Small teams, clear ownership, direct communication, and outcome focus....
The Anatomy of a Production Outage
The pattern behind production outages: the 2am alert, the escalating panic, the decision that makes it worse. What separates teams that recover from teams that don't....
Documentation as Product: What Open Source Gets Right
Documentation quality determines adoption more than feature completeness. Tom Preston-Werner's Readme Driven Development and the open source community show how doc-first thinking produces better softw...
The Solo Founder Loneliness Problem
Solo founders face psychological costs the startup world rarely acknowledges. The isolation isn't weakness—it's physics....
When Microservices Make Sense
Microservices succeed when you have the right prerequisites: team scale, deployment independence, scaling needs, and operational maturity. Here's how to tell if they're right for you....
Startup Metrics Theater: Vanity vs Value
Vanity metrics like DAU and total downloads create illusions of progress while hiding real problems. The metrics that predict survival - retention, churn, unit economics - often hurt to look at....
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