Only The Simplest Tools

Over the past couple of years, there’s been a curious trend in the world of coffee. While espresso is still a thing of expensive machinery to get the most out of the bean, filter coffee has taken an interesting turn towards simplicity.

What Adopting Blameless Post-Mortems Has Taught Me About Culture

A couple of years ago, I was introduced to the idea and practice of post-mortems through a talk by John Allspaw. I do owe him a lot, he’s an inspiration.

Fake Everything Until You Make It

For the first 15 months of Travis CI’s existence as a paid product, customer support went a little like this:

Implement Routines to Foster Habits

I’ve been trying to implement daily habits over the past couple of months. Writing, push-ups, taking a walk, writing a diary. Those are my key habits that I want to practice every day.

Focus Starts With Saying No

Every product out there is riddled by a thousand customers’ requests for a thousand features. Every single one of them has an idea on what would make your product better, what would make it more suitable for their purpose, for their daily work.