Three is a magical number. We know as much. It’s not as good as seven, but I guess that’s just my personal opinion. Three works extremely well in startups too. I’ve founded several startups with two other founders. Having three people there, especially in the early days, makes sensible decision-making…

December is a weird month. This particular one has been even weirder than normal, busier than normal. All parts of my life have been turned upside-down and inside-out in the last couple of weeks. Most things have fallen back into place. …

I was saying to a friend this week that I felt like my approach to a certain interaction with one of our teams was a bit ‘disruptive’. After using that word, I immediately realised I need to follow that up with ‘not in a positive way’. It got me to…

A couple of weeks ago the folks behind the Serverless framework released the first version of Serverless Cloud, a managed serverless hosting service that makes it even faster to bootstrap serverless applications. I’ve been playing around with it a bit, and love the way it is set up and how…

How do you find your company’s voice and stand out between all the other businesses trying to talk to your customers? — As your company starts to take shape, and you’re creating a logo, a website, business cards, email newsletters, or any other written text, you slowly will start to discover your company’s tone of voice. It’s important for you and your co-founders to be aware of your company’s tone of voice…

Tags in the task manager app Things seem very minimal and simplistic at first sight because of the minimalist UI, but there are a lot of handy ways to apply them to better manage your tasks and schedule your days. Here are some of the ways in which I apply…

Gatsby is a wonderful framework for quickly building static sites using React and GraphQL. Here are some things to look out for when you’re ready to put your Gatsby site live. Metadata fun It’s not the most fun part of building a website, but good metadata will help your site be found…

Some tips and tricks to help you get started — Lately, I’ve been working with a few contractors who hadn’t worked with the Serverless framework before. I realized there’s not a lot of good documentation around this, so here are some frequently asked questions, which should help you get started. How do I invoke functions locally? Weirdly, it might be hard to figure this one out…

How I got back some time for deep work — Within my companies, one of my main roles is being a facilitator. I like to help my colleagues do their best work. That means answering a lot of questions over Slack and Zoom. I love it, but it also takes up a lot of time, especially if you combine it…