Dare we say we are happy using Blueprint, a ReactJS components library, from Pantir after only 2 months of build.
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Why write software
I keep reminding my self almost daily that the only reason we write software is to create business value. We don’t write software because it serves some higher purpose. It’s very simple. Business aims to solve customer’s problem or reduce friction in its operations. Software solves those problems and business captures created value.
Hiring, hiring, hiring. I’ve been hiring for the last 6 months non-stop. Before leaving my job I had to hire new CTO and a team of 6 in India as part of my handover.
At my new startup, I am setting up a team and I started hiring even before I started. I talked to freelancers from Upwork, super contractors in London, AWS solution architects, many outsourcing agencies from 20 to 200 staff in Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Holland, South Africa., LinkedIn contacts, Twitter followers, CTOs from London, Israel and Belgrade… and many recruitment consultants.
I posted jobs on job boards from LinkedIn to local job sites in Eastern Europe. I interviewed many candidiates in the first to final rounds, reviewed not as many CVs (engineers don’t know how to write CVs), built submitted code, performed many coding tests, talked to many managers. The key to success is to forget your ego and find value in candidates for the particular role you are hiring for. Forget your ego.
When manging remote teams I find useful to agree for engineers to perform regular code submissions. I should also note, from my experience on both ends, that when someone — myself included — isn’t making regular pushes or pull requests., they’ve usually “checked out.” That is, they’re not actually working. And more importantly, they’ve stopped caring.
So, as long as you’re actually doing work, and as long as writing code is a daily responsibility of yours, you shouldn’t be afraid to push code every day. If you find that difficult, you might be in the wrong job! And, that’s something both your manager and you should want to see the early signs of!
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What’s technology
Technology is something you need to explain to your parents.
For millennials internet is not a technology but AI is.
For the generation X, internet is a technology but the TV is not.
Technology is always invented in your lifetime.
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Alan Key
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What’s discovery
- Think of a “discovery” as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to an earlier time.
What could be what should be done with all the time that lay ahead of us? from Night Train to Lisbon
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Complexity in banks
Banks cannot do what they want to do – innovate.
And banks do what they don’t what to do – manage legacy operations, processes and old systems.
As a result Banks are building new next to old. Fintech partnering with banks can create value at scale.
As in architecture adding complex operational or marketing processes is pricy. Frank Gehry, an architect, said about building complex structures: flat costs $1, one curve $2, double curve $10.