The First Cohort as Instrument
The founding cohort isn't just your first customers — they're your most reliable source of signal about what to build next. The pre-sale bought you access to that instrument.
Learning
The Latency of Learning
There's always a gap between when a system learns something and when that learning actually changes what it does. Closing that gap is harder than it looks.
The Art of Reading Code You Didn't Write
What I've learned about understanding unfamiliar codebases, and why reading code is a skill worth developing