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Everyone's using AI to skip the SDLC... I used it to rebuild the SDLC.
Most teams building software today are using extraordinary new tools to run a fundamentally old process. I did that too…and more recently than I’d like to admit.
Even two months ago, my setup still leaned heavily on a human in the loop at...
The loneliest time to build has arrived disguised as the easiest.
A few years ago, building a real product required assembling people. You needed engineers, and to get engineers you needed either money or a compelling enough vision to pull them in without it. You needed co-founders, because the work was s...
Capable businesses, wrong tools, every time
Twenty years into a career and taking a step back, you get clarity on the problem you’ve been circling the whole time.
I did not plan it this way. My path through financial services and technology looked, from the outside, like a series of...
How do you tell the difference between persistence and stupidity?
The honest answer is that you usually cannot. Not from the inside, and not at the time.
We have built an entire mythology around relentlessness. The founder who would not quit. The refusal to stop when every rational signal said stop. Phil...
SaaS isn't dead. But the crowd announcing its death has the dependency backwards.
Let me start by agreeing with the consensus, so I can then tell you why I think it is wrong.
The argument goes like this. AI can now do what software used to charge you for. Why pay for a tool with menus and buttons when you can simply ask...
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Fintech operator and emerging markets builder. Years scaling platforms across Africa. Now building something new, starting from a problem the industry has largely ignored. This is the unvarnished version of that journey.
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