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A Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees found that AI makes workers take on more, not less. The productivity gains are real, but exhausting.

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A simple scoring system for deciding what to build next. Score each idea on Strategic Heft, Income potential, and Perspiration (effort), then rank them to find your highest-ROI opportunities.

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The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.

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Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The “Max MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue.

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It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull.

Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.

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This article shares specific, actionable advice for early-stage startups building dev tools in particular.

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Playing software development on Nightmare difficulty

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Some good advice by Michele Hansen

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Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate. Unique business models emerge when at least one dimension is so extreme that it defies critics and competitors to even conceive of its possibility.

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Here's how Wes Bos goes about adding PPP for his courses.

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Here's the story behind JMac's efforts making Laravel Shift a success.

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Everybody makes fuckups. When you do, don't be ashamed, just try to learn from it.

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In this stream I share how Mattias Geniar and I started and are growing Oh Dear. Halfway the stream, Simon Bennet joins me to talk about Snapshooter.

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After more than 2 years of building Oh Dear, I still struggle with the most fundamental question: how are users finding our application and where should we focus our marketing efforts to maximize that?

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Ian Landsman, one of the organisers behind Laracon Online, shares how he and his team have been running the succesfull online conference these past few years.

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Some solid advice for when you're building a product.

Build a product with the help of a hacker. Design it for the benefiter. Sell it to an expert.

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Christoph Rumpel wrote an honest lookback at the launch of his book. I takes courage to publish a post like these. Well done!

Exactly 365 days ago, I released my first ebook. I always wanted to share my experiences about it, but I never felt comfortable enough to do so. The project didn't turn out as expected, and I felt embarrassed. It's time to finally reflect it and to overcome my fears.

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A short and sweet article by my colleague Seb.

I was always adding features because I’d expect other people to expect them. It’s a trap! You’re not making people happier by guessing what they might need. You’re not doing anyone a disservice by building things for yourself.

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A while ago Povilas Korop, creator of and writer at LaravelDaily, shared some interesting numbers on his blog.

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