Complexity happens by default. Simplicity happens by design.

The three epochs of the Internet: 1. Web 2. Mobile 3. Blockchains

Go time. https://t.co/ArbLG5f9TN

CI/CD is the purest expression of Conway’s Law: your CI/CD pipeline will be broken and messy in exactly the same ways your engineering org is broken and messy. https://t.co/KHB7su003S

Microsoft Azure: Reached $1B revenue run-rate in 2015 Grew to $20B revenue run-rate end of 2019 Growing 60%+ annually Bigger business than Windows today Likely a bigger business than Office within 2 years Stunning that Azure is on track to be Microsoft's biggest business soon.

Perspective: email apps should not open to an Inbox view. Should open to a prioritized task list. Default behavior should be to work on the most impt. thing. Snapchat's genius was opening to camera view. The default behavior became to share instead of consume.

Sketch launched Developer Handoff in the browser last week to improve collaboration between designers & developers. In the 7 days since launch, designers & developers collaborated on 30,000 artboards. The growth of design as a core part of application development is staggering.

Not a lot of real economy inflation over past decade; but plenty of asset inflation

Building software is easy. Integrating software is hard.

Amazon AWS: $40B revenue run-rate Grew 34% annually 67% of Amazon's operating income Microsoft Azure: Est. $20B revenue run-rate Grew 62% annually & accelerating Tracking to be Microsoft's largest business soon Remarkable. Two $1T companies are driven by cloud infrastructure.

Every Kobe Bryant game-winner in 2 min. RIP to a legend. Prayers to his family💜💛 #RIPMamba #824

We may be in an era of “Super Infrastructure” software companies in North America & Europe (vs “Super Apps”) Examples: Commerce: Shopify, Stripe, Adyen, etc Dev tools: Atlassian, MongoDB, Twilio, Elastic, etc Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP And more This trend seems to be accelerating.

Negotiation as a Service (NaaS) Hire a firm to negotiate all of your cloud contracts on your behalf and let them keep 25% of savings or $1k (whichever is greater). No real downside for company. Surprised this doesn’t exist!

Square Capital Shopify Capital Stripe Capital Google Capital (GCP credits) Amazon Capital (AWS credits) Etc Etc Etc The Internet’s version of quantitative easing...

Interesting to compare FAANG vs Enterprise Software (SWAAS) performance in 2019: FB +57% Apple +86% Amazon +23% Netflix +21% Google +29% [Average +43%] Salesforce +19% Workday +3% Adobe +46% Atlassian +35% ServiceNow +59% [Average +32%] For comparison: NASDAQ +35%

If the company is doing reasonably well And your boss is a good boss And your team is a good team Then any other job is likely worse

Junior product teams obsess over creating features. Senior product teams obsess over eliminating features.

You can tell when a product is made by people who had fun making it.

Working at Tesla is super hard. But after two years, my standards for what success looks like and how big to swing have been dramatically transformed and it's pretty cool tbh.