Quick Reads (Under 5 Minutes)

60+ days as a CTO. Strategic changes underway. Success this week measured by obstacles removed vs acknowledged.

Promise to self: do not solve specification ambiguity with complicated code. Drive clarity and simplicity back into the business.

Day 50. Pairing happening. Node app with continuous integration under way. Commitment to testing. Examples of collaboration with other groups.

There’s an art to rewriting an app without halting to do a “rewrite project”. A messy, tactile art. Like finger paints.

Don’t customize systems that provide no competitive advantage because you will not invest adequately to maintain them.

The team escalates impediments to you or you head them off before they distract the team. My day is a thudding convergence of the two.

Join our team of JavaScript devs in Chelsea, NYC. Sustainable pace/xp/great benefits. News site with 20M mo. uniques

Orchestration layer on node. Yeah, that’s what we’re building. Why not learn from smart people solving similar problems.

I’m hiring experienced server/client JavaScript developers at The Daily Beast. Help me build the team!

Joy in what’s working. Determination, precision and patience over what isn’t. Mission and humility. Respect for people above all.

Delegating authority does not entail forcing people to make decisions in an absence of context and support. ‘nough said.

State of agile practice at The Daily Beast. Need to order 3x5” note cards and sharpie markers because none were on hand.