And then Product Hunt pulled me back in.
This you can build anything era is wild, speaking both personally and as the current CEO of Medium.
Medium has a new app on the home page today in about spot #5. Definitely interested in what you all think of TK.
This is the first thing Medium's launched in 9 years. Like, we fell behind competitively and then got ourselves paralyzed with tech debt.
Personally, it looks like I joined 12 years ago to promote a gimmick quotes project and just kept launching. Then faded away 5 years ago.
I'm just looking at the landscape and thinking, shoot, Medium might have four Product Hunt launches before February. And then in the mix of that, I might self publish one or two books.
This all because AI tools have become so powerful. You all know that. But the thing that still seems impossible is how to build something great. I just don't know how to do that in any way other than to revise, revise, revise.
It's painful, right? I was talking about this at work. Doing good work is fun. It makes me feel productive and capable. But doing great work is painful and scary. It's a pain to keep working on something when you really want to put it down. And then when you share it, it's scary because you are really putting your ego on the line in terms of being judged.
Anyway, we're all doing the same thing so kudos for risking our egos and trying to make cool product happen!
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How are you guys using agentic development images of Medium today?
Are you still following the principles of holocracy?
Do they offer anything of use for aligning teams and their agents?
@chrismessina I think there might only be four or five people who still remember anything about holocracy, so no. Can't say that helps.
We are basically moving to a builder/player-coach model and, like everyone, learning as we go. So right now lots of people can ship code, but I do kind of think we have some people who are best at V1 and others who are best at V2, and they are both necessary.
As managers, we had to get out of the idea that we could do hand offs and instead have more surface area for collaboration as the hand off itself (that's the play coach).
People talk about how everyone is 10x as productive, but they're all productive in different shapes.
Basically it's a lot to work out still.
Revise, revise, revise is how I've kept one product alive for 22 years too. When a user asks for something, I try to ship it the same day. Recently a user asked to switch between views on my board tool, I checked that Notion and Asana already did it, and it went live that day. Congrats on shipping again after nine years!