Book Reviews
Executing Organizational Cartography
A few years back, during my early days at Affirm, a couple of us engineering leaders[1] were trying and struggling to orchestrate a reorg across our teams. There were a number of strong personalities to manage and key communications…
Exclusively "A" Players
Steve Jobs supposedly said, "A players hire A players; B players hire C players." Silicon Valley takes this to heart, a guiding light for tight hiring process and keeping a high bar when building out teams. Better to…
Lucid Motors, the Tesla of a Decade Past
Before AI dominated the headlines and capital investments, electric vehicles and autonomous driving were poised to be the defining technologies of the 2020s. It's been a fascinating industry to follow: first Tesla and their rise to prominence, then…
Review: Apple in China
The student has become the master. That was what I was thinking as I was about two-thirds of the way through Apple in China, a book highly recommended by the author of Stratechery as possibly one of the best…
Pixelache
I just finished the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It was originally released back in April, but due to the organic praise from critics and the gaming community alike, the game was sold out for months, and I wasn'…
Selective Acquihiring
It was around 5 pm on a lazy weekday afternoon. I still remember peering out into the mostly empty parking lot, the bright Californian sun blunted with tinted glass in my tiny conference room, on the second floor of an…
