Beyond the technical skills, however, Fintan seems to have a knack for asking interesting questions, a trait that can be harder to find than the ability to answer them.

I’m not at all surprised at how RedMonk went about their latest round of hiring. Sounds like they have landed a great fit. Congrats all around.

What a nice surprise. FastMail¹ is one of the internet services I’ve used the longest; surviving several ownership changes. That’s not easy – great job pulling it off and continuing to offer stellar service.

If you’re running a Mac software distribution and both Panic and Bare Bones sign up then decide to leave due to the limitations… something isn’t working right.

The idea of an entrepreneur is to ideally build a company that is bigger than the founder. In the early days you are critical, but over time your job is to build systems and hire people (or teams of people) to fill in these critical roles. In many ways the true measure of success is when you’ve managed to make yourself no longer a necessary piece.

I often said that my job at Crowd Favorite was to make myself redundant. And then to build redundancy into the team, processes, etc.

I ended up doing this when I got my iPhone 6 because it was acting possessed. On all of my prior iPhones, I had restored from my previous phone’s backup. Ultimately, starting fresh fixed all sorts of weird little things as well as larger issues like TouchID: it had never worked for me on my iPhone 5S or my iPhone 6 until I did the fresh install on the iPhone 6. It’s more work to do the initial set-up, but I’ll be installing from scratch from now on.

We need more Penn Jillette.

Fascinating read. I’m glad to see this type of introspection and process from Adobe; especially in light of indirect challenges from the likes of apps like Sketch that were built ground-up with these types of workflows in mind.

I’m super bummed to be missing Monktoberfest this year, but that just means one of you lucky folks can use my ticket. Tickets are on sale now!