Sustained Writing

I continue to be impressed with the work at OpenAI and their GPT-3 offering. Generative AI work is hard. They have been able to finance complex research through commercialization. Their marketing is phenomenal - word of mouth runs around the tech community. ... Read More

"I want to love it."  I have heard this excuse more than once from would-be entrepreneurs. I say would-be because that desire for love blocks the willingness to engage the market and take a real risk. As long as one is in a dark room, their code is a private secret known o... Read More

A couple of months back, Vik Duggal gave me some sage advice: get involved in communities. They provide a means of building trust that is impossible with broadcasting at more scale than 1-1 communications. To this end, he recommended ... Read More

The surface area to volume ratio (SA: V) explains many behaviors across biology, chemistry, and physics. The ideas in this ratio can teach us about software.  Software products have two sources of complexity: the depth of the underlying code and the feature set that touches the user... Read More

Halve the features and double the price.  I've been around technology and startups for a couple of decades. In my experience, most offerings are overburdened by f... Read More