Steph Ango

Use the saw, fear the saw

<p>When I learned to use a table saw, my teacher impressed upon me that the machine wants to cut fingers. Fear the saw!</p> <p>Powerful tools can do powerful things. If you want to make handmade wooden furniture you must cut wood. Your desi

If you're remote, ramble

<p>A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice.</p> <p>Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think

Self-guaranteeing promises

<p>Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise is verifiable and non-reversible. It does not require you to trust anyone.</p> <p><a class="internal-link" href="/file-over-app">File over app</a> is a self-guaranteeing

What can we remove?

<p>Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more process, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spe