Avoiding the Contributor Trap
Your ability to get things done has gotten you promoted throughout your career. To keep growing you're going to need to leave that behind and change strategies to avoid the contributor trap
Writing
Articles on the strategy & tactics of commercial SaaS product & company leadership
Is your Company a Rocket, Jet, or Glider?
Being clear on your trajectory - with yourself, your investors, and your team - determines what advice matters most. What works great with one is at best counter-productive and possibly disastrous with another. You’re a Rocket Your top priority...
Who's your biggest competition? For Sonos, it's headphones.
I’ve noticed that my house is a lot quieter this fall. It’s not just that the kids are back in school; it took me a bit to realize that I’m not hearing music anymore. We have Sonos speakers all over the house. Over the past decade, they’ve slowly...
You Can't Afford to Avoid This
Instead of focusing on preventing a problem from ever happening again, recognize when it's a reasonable risk you're running so you can succeed.
Effort doesn't equal Value
We naturally assume anything that's difficult must be worth it - but it turns out how much others value what we've accomplished is independent of how hard it was to achieve.
Don't Bet Against the Cloud
Amazon and others seem to be shifting away from the cloud to self-hosted, owned hardware in data centers - what's going on?