Speedstrapping Playbook: Maximize Growth with Minimal Dilution DRAFT

🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.

It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity

We need fewer things to work on. Starting now.

Don’t Create Chaos

A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR

It’s actually open source software that's eating the world

At Lightspeed we’ve been investing aggressively in open source software (OSS) businesses for the past 10 years. Recently, we’ve seen a significant increase in entrepreneurs pitching open source startups, and we’ve also seen greater competition for these deals. We pulled together some numbers in an attempt to measure the acceleration in interest in and funding for OSS businesses in the last few years. The results were staggering even to us.

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together | Open Source Pledge

Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time

An overview of what’s changed in engineering during the last six months, how various tech companies are changing how they work, and why slowing down could be a sensible strategy

Speeding up code review with `small-change`

Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting: we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two years ago, and a number of others are closing in on that number. That’s pretty neat, and the slope of the line suggests our average in a year is going to look much closer to today’s p90 than today’s p50. Even more importantly, we aren’t just shipping more, our quality has improved: incidents are down 42% half-over-half, and critical incidents are down 78% half-over-half. I think we’ve always known the quality/velocity tradeoff wasn’t a particularly useful construct, but that’s undeniable today.

The Challenges Of Growing A Plugin Business - FooPlugins

The business and our brand grew fast. In retrospect, I was extremely naive thinking that the growth would simply continue.

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab

Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

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Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier? - Slashdot

The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..." [While optimists expect] huge corporate p...

The bottleneck shifts to distribution

Here comes everybody

The bottleneck shifts to distribution

Here comes everybody