You can tell a lot from somebody based on their speech patterns| blog.sbensu.com
It reframes therapy as a relationship instead of a treatment.| sbensu
When reading, it is worth understanding the kind of person authors are.| sbensu
Countertransference applies to regular conversation.| blog.sbensu.com
Unsurprising connection between risk and speed.| blog.sbensu.com
Stories about Stripe Link where we have to do a lot of upfront coordination but it was worth it.| sbensu
Notes on the book.| sbensu
In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.| sbensu
A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.| blog.sbensu.com
Solving for the Twitter equilibrium| sbensu
Beware of what you actually want.| sbensu
Losing My Religion is not about religion and Arguments are not about arguments| blog.sbensu.com
Artists can often trace entire pieces around one idea that drives everything else.| blog.sbensu.com
Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to the database.| sbensu
When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.| blog.sbensu.com
Some brief notes about the subject| sbensu
A lot of speech is about convincing others of what type of arguments have merit| sbensu
Notes from reading the book by Zubok| sbensu
A dozen pseudo-currencies were issued in Argentina in 2002. How did that work? And why are they coming back in 2024?| sbensu
Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from consumer software. Here are some things to keep in mind.| sbensu
In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can reach. But when they lean into hate, they lose their soul to it. Twitter offers the same bargain as the Force.| sbensu
What I’ve learned from selling enterprises while developing a new product. This is less of a guide and more of a cautionary tale.| sbensu
Lessons from AWS S3 and others on how to price APIs.| sbensu
Swedish has a specific word for each of the four grandparents: mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar. English doesn’t. So when you mention your 'grandma' to a Swede, they are left wondering 'which grandma?' even if it is not relevant to the story. That is a semantic gap.| sbensu
I analyze 8 apps (ChatGPT, Notion, Perplexity, etc.) that use or integrate LLM and try to break down when and why they work well, or poorly.| sbensu
Friction logs are a technique to improve your own products and understand others. You use the produdct the way a real user would and write down every single moment you experience some form of negative emotion.| sbensu
Why don't software companies ship more products? Why do they move more slowly as they grow? What do we mean when we say "this company lacks focus"?| blog.sbensu.com
This post explains how you can use interfaces to make data model and database migrations easier.| sbensu
People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny. Make it clear to them that they are!| sbensu
Some people care about helping their team. Others care about achieving outcomes. It is important to know who is who.| sbensu
A collection of common breaking changes to JSON APIs for you to keep in mind as you design.| sbensu
The main trick is to design them with extension in mind so that you won't have to break them later.| sbensu
Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has a lot more requirements than a transfer system and I rarely see the crypto ecosystem acknowledge these when building "payment" products.| sbensu
This is a supplement to High Variance Management, where I build some intuition on the different probability distributions involved.| sbensu
How should you manage a team that is trying to achieve results out of the ordinary?| sbensu
APIs are hard to learn. If you think about the learning curve of your API, you can design one that works for beginners, novices, and experts.| sbensu
This post by patio11 covers a few things that I learned working with gift cards over the years.| blog.sbensu.com
Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?| blog.sbensu.com