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I’ve used the term Feature Factory at a couple conference talks over the past two years. I started using the term when a software developer friend complained that he was “just sitting in the factory, cranking out features, and sending them down the line.”

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What does it take to achieve world-class? As a musician? As a sportsman? As a speaker? Is it talent? The answer is no. The answer is 10,000 hours of practice.

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A chilling wake-up call from inside the AI frontier. Matt Shumer pulls back the curtain on a technological shockwave already reshaping reality, comparing today’s AI moment to the eerie calm before Covid changed the world. What sounds unbelievable is already unfolding. The ground is moving beneath us, and most people have no idea yet.

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People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.

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The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch. We’re entering a new era of software development where the goal isn't always longevity. For years, the industry has been obsessed with building platforms and ecosystems, but the tide is shifting toward something ephemeral.

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A personal collection of favourite songs, curated throughout 2023.

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A concise set of values for building software, written in 2001. Often misapplied as process, but originally about trust, feedback, and adaptability.

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Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem.