Find a mentor, and be humble enough to listen to one. I wasn’t. I was too stubborn and too arrogant to believe anyone could teach

No single event — and I think that is the answer. I had a carefree childhood with parents I could always count on. They were

Slack, by a wide margin. All internal communication runs through it, and because everything sits in threads, a decision from last year is still findable.

I don’t switch into it — I try not to lose it. The day starts slowly: never rushed, and a long breakfast. Then I meditate,

That software is only one of three things. Any real problem sits on a triangle of process, people and systems — and a system only

I would spend at least six months on the problem before writing a line of code. Talking to potential customers, not to validate an idea

Child trafficking. I have no professional expertise to offer here and no clever argument — this one is simply not negotiable for me. Children are

At the start of the pandemic my people hated it. Not being able to come to the office felt like a loss. Within months it

The tension between putting yourself out there and keeping your ego small. Personal branding asks you to beat the drum: look at me, look at

The distance between an idea and a working result has collapsed. Something that used to take a quarter to build can now be in front