Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Interim note 5: web media and web dev employment
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The promise and distraction of productivity and note-taking systems
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The hard truth about productivity research
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
Companies Are Being Torn Apart by AI "Workslop," Stanford Research Finds
Not only is AI hampering productivity, but it's also blowing up collaboration and souring employee dynamics.
Out of the Software Crisis: two-year project review
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
On the Layoffs, Narcissists, and Other Links & Notes
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Hitting the High Notes
In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company: The common belief is that when you’re …
Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace
The software maker, which once prided itself on a flat corporate environment similar to Valve and Zappos, finds that workers can benefit from a little direction.
Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat
The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll…
The one about the web developer job market
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Breaking Smart: How Software is Eating the World
21 essays on the software revolution — how agile, networked approaches are disrupting industries and remaking society. In English, German, and French.
