In 2012, at EVALS, I had a major problem on day one of our launch. "The wheels are falling of the go-cart!!" We were on site at a major fire academy. 300 users on 300 iPads, recording videos, photos, and notes in real time. All of it flowing…
You don't know what sudo is anymore. You're shipping production three abstraction layers deep thinking the cloud is a place. It's not a place. It's a building in Virginia that smells like burnt dust and has a bizarre buzzing noise that nobody…
If your software infrastructure and architecture needs AI to "produce incredible output," you've already lost. You're clearly coping for not knowing how to build systems that are maintainable, scalable, or reliable. Therefore....... AI. CANT. FIX. YOUR. BAD. FOUNDATIONS. It will just make them fail…
What if the next hype is eating crayons? LinkedIn Titles/Tags in 48 hours: 🖍️CRAYON-NATIVE ARCHITECT 🖍️CRAYON EATING EVANGELIST 🖍️STRATEGIC CRAYON CONSUMPTION ADVISOR "Most people are eating crayons wrong. Here's my 7-step framework." "Just mass-recruited 400 people who've been eating crayons since 2019.…
I was extemely excited for this, because I loved the first one. This had absolutely nothing nostalgic about it and the plot was an attempted readers digest story. Watching this felt like a saturday morning cartoon that you turn off to go watch the price is right. I give it…
Meteorology isn't astrology. Astrology is pattern-matching on vibes with zero feedback loop. Growing up, I never understood why there was a weather channel or weather section in the news. Why on earth does anyone care what the weather MIGHT be like? It either is or isn't,…
The long story of combining two companies through an acquisition, from a technical perspective, in a little over 5 months. TLDR 2 completely different companies (GETOUTPASS and POGOPASS), were combined into 1 (GETOUT). We sunset 2 legacy platforms, migrated over 350k+ active members (representing over 1M active family pass holders)…
2024 was the year everyone discovered they could ship software without knowing how to write it. Vibe coding. Cursor. Copilot. Claude doing the heavy lifting while humans provided the vibes. 500,000 apps submitted to Apple's App Store last year. Most in over a decade. Not because we…
This movie, was absolutely incredible. Sure, it was made by the same people as the Martian and had that same vibe, similar to fury - the entire film takes place in the same "location" and is survival based. This was extremely emotional, compelling, and made me think deep…
I've decided to become a Thought Leader. First thing you do is start every post with "Unpopular opinion." Doesn't matter that 47,000 people posted the same take this week. That's what makes it unpopular. The popularity. Then you need a framework.…