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A blog by Charlie Andrews about startups and technology

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50 from 7 Oct 2014 to 23 Apr 2025
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2025 1

  1. Building as a search algorithm

2023 8

  1. The ACE technique for starting new things
  2. Maybe just use Rails
  3. Catching mistakes earlier
  4. Venture money ain't free
  5. Adding a sense of urgency to negotiations
  6. How employees can get burned in acquisitions
  7. Getting people to care about what you're building
  8. How to find your blind spots

2022 12

  1. Customers extrapolate from quality
  2. No distribution, no dice
  3. What my toddler taught me about management
  4. Where are good startup ideas born?
  5. Why is selling software so weird?
  6. Blockchains will maybe not destroy the planet
  7. Dreams and risks
  8. That code's going to get run like three times
  9. Never reach out twice with the same value proposition
  10. How to find founder/market fit
  11. The fabled grand slam project
  12. Ludwig's journey to 1,000 views

2021 5

  1. I hope distributed is not the new default
  2. For low motivation days
  3. Tock and the ORD Camp playbook
  4. Rocket League and root cause misattribution
  5. Pay attention to time between wins

2020 5

  1. When hiring in secondary markets, seek out great teachers and avid learners
  2. Becoming an expert #2: the learning cycle
  3. Becoming an expert #1: Experts and expertise
  4. Be the team crier
  5. Organizing our team

2019 1

  1. The Pomodoro Technique in practice

2018 1

  1. Episode 3: The one where I skip way ahead and start finishing a railing

2017 2

  1. Episode 2: The one where we rough the second bedroom in
  2. Episode 1: The one where I start blogging mid-renovation

2016 1

  1. Re: Retaining Walls, extra lane could be in works for I-94

2015 9

  1. Sharing work between computers with Git
  2. The 7 Habits summarized
  3. A personal constitution
  4. Org everywhere
  5. Most qualified
  6. Thou with hammer, whack
  7. Playing around with RPCs in Go
  8. The beauty of numpy
  9. The greedy strategy of self improvement

2014 5

  1. Remedying a defect in spaceballs-mode
  2. The missing Emacs mode: spaceballs-mode
  3. Allergic to Q
  4. Sending our Friendly Veterinarian back to school
  5. Friendly Veterinarian: a simple emacs package