If you don’t trust the intuitive systems thinkers in your organization, you are likely deleting the wrong things when it comes to simplifying software design.| Colin Breck
Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two after firming up the communication plan with my new team there.) The most important things I learned at Carta were:| lethain.com
In my career, the majority of the strategy work I’ve done has been in non-executive roles, things like Uber’s service migration. Joining Calm was my first executive role, where I was able to not only propose but also mandate strategy. Like almost all startups, the engineering team was scattered when I joined. Was our most important work creating more scalable infrastructure? Was our greatest risk the failure to adopt leading programming languages? How did we rescue the stuck service decom...| lethain.com