Thoughts on Entrepreneurship

It was a great honor to recently come back to my alma mater, Rice University, to give the opening keynote at the Rice Alliance for… Read more

Culture: Drafting your team’s Constitution

Culture matters — but why, and what does it even mean? For many organizations — large/small, traditional/techy — culture is oft defined by a list of words describing shared values. Many… Read more

Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper

Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper I’m honored that Parsable has received an investment of $20 million from a consortium of… Read more

A Slack microsurvey bot

In our last episode, we discussed why we were seeking a microsurvey tool (to metricize our perception of velocity), and we evaluated the existing options… Read more

React Full Stack Tests with Nightwatch

Plenty of great ink has been spilled over unit testing React components and Redux reducers et al, but we had a lot of difficulty finding… Read more

What does this financing do to my ownership?

It’s fundraising season (it’s always fundraising season), and I’m finding myself helping my awesome entrepreneur friends navigate the exciting “what does this do to my… Read more

Measuring Velocity: A Survey of Microsurveys

Here at Parsable, we want to build an amazing culture and work environment. Transparency is king around here, so standups, retrospectives, all-hands meetings, and OKRs… Read more

Using Human Readable JSON Endpoints with Thrift (for Free)

Shameless plug: I work at WI (http://wi.co/). We are changing the way people outside Silicon Valley work. If you are interested have a look at… Read more

Promoting Foreign Key Data Fetching from React to NuclearJS

Because We Don’t Have GraphQL (Yet) In some halcyon future, we will just use something like GraphQL to dynamically compose data requests from the server, retrieving… Read more

WebSocket Connections and UI with React, NuclearJS, and ImmutableJS

— tl;dr plenty of code below — At Wearable Intelligence we need reliable real time connection for workers out in the field. Most critically, we need… Read more