Collaboration doesn’t just eliminate duplicated effort. It also frees up QA to focus on *gaps* in testing instead of starting from scratch.

Back in 2021, I wrote down the set of problems that annoy me the most. #1: Local dev environments are brittle. I had worked at enough companies that shoehorned docker-compose into trying to solve this, and while it does improve things, it also sucks in many ways. Even back

Most people aren’t aware how gifted product people enjoy obsessively thinking about their product, even when they are not actively working. It’s a near-constant train of ideas, questions, simulations engaging their mind, every minute. This cannot be taught, it’s who you are.

Until today, I am still waiting for designers who got some real balls to bring their online drama to IRL combat sport, boxing at least. It's so lame that some people only act tough behind their keyboard.

In retrospect, all boils down to the fact classic vc tech playbook doesn’t work with deep tech. No you cannot just scale distribution and sort out product later.

Poll: Which team would you rather work with? Team 1: “We have Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, and Prod. We release twice a month.” Team 2: “We have local dev, preview deploys for each feature branch, and prod. We release multiple times a day via feature flags and canary releases.”

i used to have this mental illness where i thought logical arguments would change someone’s mind

i just want to build the best product and win.

What the fuck are these people talking about this is like the 10th one of these

early in my career i thought being a "cool boss" meant no rules, no hierarchy, endless patience. i'd pour months into people who couldn't ship or would break prod and leave the cleanup for others. meanwhile my best engineers were burning out carrying the weight. ROI on that

People get obsessed with money as the main goal of a startup. But income is just a side effect. The real game is impact. Did you make someone’s day easier? Did you give them a tool that actually helped? Did your thing make them feel seen or understood? If you focus on that, the

"Because I said so." Early in my career, I asked my team lead why we had to do a process that seemed unnecessary. His gruff reply? "Because I said so." Ever since that day, if someone questions me, I strive to clearly convey why. I don't want you to do something merely

Never measure yourself by your boss’s standard. Hold yourself to a higher standard than they ever could. Accepting praise from people you don’t respect is a form of self-betrayal.

Cory House QA should happen after shipping. Where the QA's are the only accounts whose feature toggles are active with the next iteration.

Jeff Bezos explains what it means to disagree and commit “Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing.” Jeff Bezos begins. “In society, and inside companies, we have a bunch of mechanisms we use to resolve disputes. And a lot of them are

Just make it part of company culture You can DM anyone at Sentry who’s in a product (or otherwise) leadership role on Twitter and they will action your feedback

"yeah man the src folder is just not needed"

Backstory: a few weeks ago, some customers, sudarshan and others pointed out a few things that were frankly pretty bitter and heartbreaking... "docs are shit, reliability is shit, console is shit. product is not enterprise-ready" I took it personally. so personally, in fact,

why I joined figma in 2025—I want to be surrounded by folks excited to push on taste/how far we go with design details as the world sees how ai can augment what we do