Words on product, systems thinking and AI.
Writing on product, systems thinking and life.
I found these illustrations on my hard disk from the Opbeat days. The brand got acquired, so they’re no longer online and would otherwise be lost - but I think they’re too good not to be online.
Full credit to Mads Themberg, our amazing illustrator for bringing the product to life. Also to Rasmus, Ron, and ofc the rest of the Opbeat crew. Making comms for a developer brand is so much better when you have an amazing team of developers to bounce ideas with.
When I worked in web hosting, a common expression was ‘during a gold-rush, sell shovels”. The idea being during a gold-rush, individual .com ventures may or may not strike gold, but the shovel seller will always profit without incurring the risk.
GenAI is undoubtedly the latest gold-rush, but this time round where will value be generated?
I've been playing around with vibe-coding a lot last year. The promise is incredible, everyone can build amazing software - but the reality is a bit more technical.
In this post, I share some of the terms I picked up along the way, and explain why I think they're important.
Hello and welcome (back) to my (new) blog. I feel an explanation is probably necessary.
I first published this website back in 2005. This was pre-Bootstrap, back when design patterns, information models, and best practice for websites had yet to be defined. Web design could be creative, experimental and often unusable.
