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All clippings about Business.
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A Services Firm Makes a Great Startup The counter-camp steel-man against "productise everything". Services can be the destination, not a stepping stone to a product business. Bespoke BIM Software Workflows There are a lot more external things to worry about when you want to sell software to other people. Bespoke Software Is the Future Off the shelf tools are great if your process fits them but the minute you need something more, it won't work and you're trying to fit a circle into a square… Hypar and Trapped Expertise The AEC industry's accumulated know-how lives in spreadsheets passed around by email. Computational design is the way to unlock it. Positioning Computational Designers Two pieces (2016 and 2017). This is basically my entire philosophy, and the industry still hasn't resolved the positioning problem they identified back then.… Services-as-Software This just reinforces my idea that custom stuff will never go out of business even with AI here because you always need to people that know what they are doing The Engineering Mindset Examples: Stripe's Ruby monolith, Uber running its own data centres. Why Content Is King I like to think of this as "world building", like I am building my own lore and attracting those that agree with it and want to come along.