Jeff Lawson (@jeffiel) has a book coming out tomorrow.
Ask Your Developer is two stories: one of businesses getting value out of devs being in "the rooms where it happens", and one about devs taking their rightful place in the economy they're building. #AskYourDeveloper
Ask Your Developer is two stories: one of businesses getting value out of devs being in "the rooms where it happens", and one about devs taking their rightful place in the economy they're building. #AskYourDeveloper
I'm enormously bullish on this thesis, and some Stripe Atlas' work is featured in the book.
Importantly, the key to a lot of our success was a cross-functional dynamite-all-the-silos approach to building the Atlas product. Many of our best ideas came from User Ops.
Importantly, the key to a lot of our success was a cross-functional dynamite-all-the-silos approach to building the Atlas product. Many of our best ideas came from User Ops.
This harkens back to a phrase that I flagrantly steal from Jeff all the time: "software people." I think that there is an emerging mindset, almost a tribe, of people who truly Get It with respect to the capabilities of software.
Not all software people write it directly.
Not all software people write it directly.
Software sometimes gets described as the Nth Industrial Revolution. I think this understates the impact: most deployment of software in the last 50 years has been doing old tasks faster and cheaper.
Engines' societal impact doesn't asymptote at that of a cheaper, faster horse.
Engines' societal impact doesn't asymptote at that of a cheaper, faster horse.
We're only starting to see what happens when business builds itself around software's capabilities rather than the other way around. Where bug-for-bug compatibility with a 50 year old form is not the design spec.
And it's a wild world. Pervasive connectivity. Ad hoc collaboration, structured by APIs and negotiated without needing to ask for permission.
Software touches the real world. It has for a long time, but the actuators available are getting more powerful and more accessible.
Software touches the real world. It has for a long time, but the actuators available are getting more powerful and more accessible.
The wild duality of the Internet economy, which has more addressable niches than conceivable and where platforms have powers we would have thought unlikely for governments.
(That sounds like a subtweet this week, but this genie won't go back in the bottle during our lifetimes.)
(That sounds like a subtweet this week, but this genie won't go back in the bottle during our lifetimes.)
I'll find my copy and post some excerpts tomorrow, but have to get back to building things today.
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