On Software, Shipping and Success

One Week to Make a Game: #vibejam 2025, Part 2

Then There Was Fire

One Week to Make a Game: #vibejam 2025, Part 1

First There Was WaterI wrote a game for the #vibejam.

The Illusion of Job Security

Security is an important factor that a lot of people subscribe to. My entire life I heard others speak of j...

Momentum, Consistency, and the Art of Perseverance

It's easy to make commitments:​

On Dealing with Conflict

 When dealing with conflict, there’s always at least one way of navigating it. Around it The first and most ob...

Skill or Talent

Hard Work and Destiny Destiny may be pre-written, but hard work writes its own future.   Skill and ...

When was the last time you failed?

Failing is important. Yet, our education system has conditioned many of us, consciously or subconsciously, to avoid failure.   In school, we ar...

Just Ship It

Occasionally, the muse whispers in our ear. A brainwave hits us like a train. We have an idea! But... we’re not sure if it’s a good idea. So we wonder, sho...

What Truly Matters Gets Done

If something is important, do it today. If it truly matters, you'll want to do it today. And if it can't be completed in a single day, you'll still be excited to wake ...

No Change, No Learning

There are many ways to learn. We can read books, we can learn from others, we can complete courses. We can also learn from mistakes. It’s easiest to learn from o...

Obsolete sooner or later but Build it anyway!

Everything we create becomes obsolete sooner or later. However, this is not a reason to avoid creating it. If we don’t take action, someone else likely will. Thi...

Value and Difficulty Correlation

A study presented two wines to a group of wine connoisseurs. The "experts" sampled each bottle. One bottle was labeled as cheap and the other as expensive. After a long deliberation, all...

The Harsh Truth: Distribution Beats Product

A successful founder once brought my attention to the value multipliers of two companies: Apple and Accenture. Apple has a product, and it’s easily scalable, Accenture has consulta...

On Shipping too Early

It's not a possibility. What's more likely is shipping too late.  In the world where you can either ship now, or ship too late, choose the former.   

Find a Tribe and Thrive

I always thought I could do everything myself. Naturally, this is true when it comes to deep work, fixing highly complex bugs, writing and thinking.  However, even if we do not need an...

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