Like a normal blog, only with pictures. Insights on technology, fractional CTOing, and life in general.
Alarmed About AI?
John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC, has helpful advice—from April 2000!
Crafty's Illustrated
Introducing Crafty CTO
Turning the page: the story of Crafty CTO
Blog/Website Relaunch: Under the Hood of craftycto.com
Relaunching via Hugo and Cloudflare Pages
Accelerating Crafty's Launch Using AI Models
Thanks to AI-based tools like Midjourney, Crafty shaved at least a month off its time to launch.
Why Fractional?
Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house. Access to experienced technology leaders One of the main benefits of fractional CTO services is access to experienced and knowledgeable technology leaders who can provide strategic guidance and support for your business. A fractional CTO can help you create a technology roadmap that aligns with your business goals and objectives, and provide expert advice on the technologies and solutions that will best support your needs. ...
Building with Shape Up
In my first post, we looked at Shape Up fundamentals like six-week cycles, appetite, work shaping, and the betting table. We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. (And shipping!)
Shape Up Your Agile
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, written by Basecamp’s Ryan Singer, hit my radar last summer, and I’ve been trying to write about it ever since.
A Day to Remember
I was in England on business—some sort of software event in London, the details long since faded and obscured. But this day, this day … the memories surge back, filling out in technicolor as I write and research, a kind of archaeological dig through both memories and the vast web of resources now at my fingertips about the people, places, and things we encountered this day. It was early June 1987, and I was fortunate in that my wife was able to make the trip with me. Beth was eight months pregnant with our first child, Jennifer, who expressed pre-natal delight at the novelty of air travel with kicks and backflips. We had only a handful of extra days for sightseeing; just time enough, really, for a single destination. ...