By dragging icons on a screen, supply-chain managers schedule factory work down to the second.
The Year of the Software Factory
We are building LifeBuild, a personal operating system for your life where AI agents help you draft projects, prioritize your commitments, and stay on top of what matters—from health to relationships to finances and beyond. This Lab Notebook chronicles our explorations.
Replacing Middle Management with APIs by Peter Reinhardt
There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have created software layers in the taxi industry, 99designs Tasks in the visual design industry, Homejoy in the cleaning industry, and so on. These new software services employ armies of human workers, optimizing their output, productivity and quality while driving price down.
Software engineering under the spotlight
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and finished products get steadily carted away, but the coordination and efficiency of each section is fairly low. Some parts of the factory get jammed up and don’t do anything for days. Other parts are manically producing broken components which are thrown away unused. However, the factory manager - i.e. the tech company CEO - has one tool to combat this problem. That tool is the spotlight.
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Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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Smart Disorganized Individuals: SpimeScript
These days, I'm thinking a lot about 3D printers, desktop manufacturing and software to create physical things. Last year I did some art...
Super Productivity – Open-Source Deep Work Task Manager
The open-source deep work task manager for developers. Plan tasks, track time & notes in a privacy-first workspace for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android & iOS.
Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
There’s an app for that
Freelance workers available at a moment’s notice will reshape the nature of companies and the structure of careers
The rise of industrial software | Chris Loy
> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.
