Same effort; better results

There's a strange relationship between the effort you put into something and the outcome you get out of it. You could invest thousands of hours in a project, only to get a tepid response to what you've made. Read the blog post: "The effort-outcome asymmetry" Have thoughts? Reply on Bluesky

"I've changed my mind on AI coding" – Adam Wathan (creator of Tailwind)

"I used to be more skeptical than I am now. Especially when everyone was talking about 'one-shotting' and 'vibe coding.' But then I forced myself to download Cursor and build an entire project without typing any code, making the computer type the code for me. I had to throw myself in the deep end." All three of us (Adam, Brian, Justin) give our honest takes on AI and software development, and how it's going to affect our businesses. "AI is like keyboard shortcuts on steroids for the things I am an…

"A Genius is He Who is Most Himself"

My friend Jeremy Enns and I recently had this conversation about a quote by Thelonious Monk: "A genius is the one most like himself." We explored this idea about what it means to find your zone of genius and why being authentically yourself might be the key to your greatest work. I ended up writing a blog post about this too: Finding your zone of genius This conversation was a part of a longer episode we did for PMT Explained.