Eight years, and the business finally dresses like its founder
Eight years ago I registered a company. This month I shipped it a nervous system. Here's the whole story between those two sentences, receipts and wobbles included.
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Notes from the workshop
Tech, business, making and the occasional life lesson.
The thing that feels like losing
At one in the morning, holding a client's system together with hope and if-statements, it does not feel like winning. It took me years to see that the thing that feels like losing is the entire reason a small shop wins.
read →Four days from no gear to lane splitting
I bought my first big bike with no gear, not even a helmet. Four days later I was lane splitting Friday morning traffic on the highway. Sensible? No. True story? Every word.
read →The show must go on
Four minutes and fifty-nine seconds on the countdown clock, and my guitar was making no sound at all. Four true stories about things breaking on stage, and why they're the reason I stay calm when your system breaks.
read →Give me a few days
A friend asked if I could remotely monitor battery voltages on a huge generator. My entire microcontroller experience was flashing someone else's code onto an Arduino Nano for a planned drumkit. So, classic Warren, I said "give me a few days."
read →The ugly macro that saved thousands of hours
The least impressive thing I've ever built is also one of the most valuable. A story about boring software, three people, a twelve-hour shift, and the outcome that actually matters.
read →Who Is Writing Your Story?
I devoured Stephen King and cowboy-alien pulp by the shelf. So in the age of AI, who's writing YOUR story?
read →Welcome to the workshop
Why I finally pulled all the scattered pieces of my online life into one place and what you can expect to find here.
read →From worker to owner
How I went from a kid teaching himself Turbo Pascal out of a textbook to running a software company with enterprise clients.
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