I use open source to help people evolve, I take pleasure in seeing people evolve

Why I still lock myself in a box to write code as a CTO


My highest return as a CTO is aligning people. Still, locking myself in a box to code built tools at Buser, seeded companies, and pulls the team to study.
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Where Data Stops in Marketing: A CTO's Notes on Data-Driven Marketing


A CTO inherits marketing: what data-driven marketing gets right, and the behavioral truths that dashboards keep getting wrong.
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I said I'd never start a company again. I was wrong.


I sold a startup, then a site to PornHub, and swore I'd never start a company again. It took ten years to see the vow was about the founder's seat.
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I was the bottleneck on awesome-go


awesome-go had around 200 open pull requests, a maintainers file that didn't match reality and a 2023 critique nobody answered. This week I went through all of it. What we got wrong, what changed, and where help is useful this Hacktoberfest.
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