by John Macdonald | Jan 15, 2026 | The250
I’m starting something new on Monday. So I took the last week and completely cleaned the slate. I started the week by doing my normal end-of-year / start-of-year cleaning tasks. Next, I totally ripped up the office and physically rehabbed it. Rebuilt the... by John Macdonald | Jan 14, 2026 | AI, The250
The turtle doesn’t always win the race, regardless of Aesop’s famous fable. Move fast and break things is the famous motto of Facebook developers during its formative years. It’s great motto for a product like Facebook because: Nobody’s life or safety depends on... by John Macdonald | Jan 13, 2026 | The250
You need some way to measure progress. So you pick a metric or two. Some KPI’s. This works initially because those metrics measure progress to date. History. “This is where we’re at.” And that’s helpful. But inevitably, if you use these KPI’s to... by John Macdonald | Jan 12, 2026 | The250
Your code will have bugs. Normal teams generate a bug for every 20 lines of code they write. “Better” teams can push that to maybe 100 lines of code. The question isn’t “if” you’ll find a bug. The question is “when.” And “when”makes all the difference in... by John Macdonald | Jan 11, 2026 | AI, The250
Dunning-Kruger is going like gangbusters right now. Every entrepreneur, Chief Operating Officer, and anyone with an idea but no knowledge of how to actually do it now thinks they can. AI, of course. “We’ll have AI do that.”“I can reduce my workforce by 30%.”“I’ll...