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I want to better understand the relationship between CEOs and CTOs. Specifically, I am investigating how CEOs feel about managing their CTOs, technology and engineering teams. If y…

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This is a super fascinating article.

Likewise, I don’t understand why Google and Microsoft weren’t more successful at killing off Slack. They already had all the users via Gmail and Exchange, so chat was just a featur…

Is it a saas or on-prem solution? I'd be interested in a tool like this, but infosec is going to have some concerns about data security and privacy.

Possibly, but isn't the first question to be answered this: is it even possible to make a carbon capture device, period? Other than flora and fauna, I'm not sure that humankind has…

I like where your going with this. How does feature size factor here? Are size and complexity independent variables? Or, is it that, by definition, larger features are more complex…

Someone posted about an aspect of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25048031

I've been the CTO or VPE at several startups (some very successful, others total failures). I'm going to give you a checklist with only three things on it, and these are the founda…

I’d say that’s about right.

I'd say no. For me, finding the right app has helped me stay organized. I think the key is that everything goes in it...it is my single source of truth for what I need to do.

It’s all about networking. Ideally when you have a job already. Express to the world that you’re looking for something new. When something good enough to leave your job comes along…

Automattic (aka Wordpress.com) was remote first since 2008, at least.

I’m a fan of Pivotal Tracker for small teams using Scrum. I haven’t used it in a few years, but I don’t think it works well for large teams...I need to revisit. IMHO, Jira is awful…

I've never seen anything like this before. Too bad is only Windows. I hope there is a *nix version soon.

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I know a dozen companies in the Seattle area looking for someone with your expertise. Find me on LinkedIn, and I can connect you.

There are a lot of good thoughts here, especially those about focusing on companies with technology risk. It seems like you would enjoy working on something like that. What I would…

Looking forward to the answer to this question!

I recommend thepointsguy.com to help you answer the question of which card

https://www.indiehackers.com has a ton of resources for this type of thing.

Yes, great question! I'd like to know that too!