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Your Platform Isn't a Cost Centre. Price It Like a Product.
A migration proposal showed runtime cost. The real TCO had eleven categories.
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Core principle for knowledge creation
The most underrated skill in business is knowing whether your problem needs an experiment or a phone call.
13 Apr
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Cloud was never the Expensive part. It was the Visible one.
FinOps Foundation dropped 'Cloud' from its mission. The interesting work for the next couple of years isn't EC2 optimisation, it's the rest of the stack catching up.
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Why Hiring the Right People Won't Fix a Broken System
Most reorgs replace people. The good ones replace the system around them.
Posts · 25 Apr
An Elegant Puzzle
The most practical book on engineering management at high-growth tech companies I've ever read
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Posts · 15 Jan
An elegant way to talk about Project to Product shift
Book Review: "Project to Product" by Dr. Mik Kersten
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Posts · 06 Oct
A Life Changing Guide to Success
Book Review: "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams
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How to Sabotage a Product, Step by Step
Product won’t ruin itself, so it’s up to us to get the job done
Posts · 08 Sep
The Systems Bible by John Gall
Nothing is going to work anyway
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Posts · 02 Jun
What You Do Is Who You Are: A Culture-Defining Guide for Leaders
Two gems from Ben Horowitz
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Being Product for Internal Product
Controversial opinion on "internal" product managers
Posts · 28 Feb
Livewired: How our brain adapts
David Eagleman reveals the exciting truth about our brain
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