It just happened again. I spoke to a company, with some great engineers, and they just experienced the doomed rewrite. I remember the days of the Monty Hall Rewrite, which is a situation I would much prefer to DOOM. With Monty Hall, you run into the following situation: A website uses a given tech stack. […]
Author Archives: Dion Almaer
Delight developers in ecosystem-enhancing, easy to copy ways
Gibson Biddle came to give a product leadership talk at Google and one section really stuck with me. He mentioned how he came up with a simple statement that packs into it the role of product, while he was VP of Product at Netflix: “Delight customers in margin-enhancing, hard to copy ways.” – Gib So […]
Almaer.com Reopens For Business
As the Web turns 30, I reflected on what made, and makes, it different and great, and this lead me to thinking about when Medium started. I really appreciated the approach-ability of the user experience, how it helps authors focus on content, and also helped people find an audience. There was an option of hosting your […]