Topic
automation
- Weekend Reading: Robotic Bricklaying, Medici and Thiel, and Airtable, Roblox of the Enterprise
🧱 Where Are the Robotic Bricklayers? Brian Potter wonders why work as taxing and seemingly-mechanically simple as brick masonry is difficult to automate: Masonry seemed like the perfect candidate for mechanization, b…
- Workflows in Fulcrum
Fulcrum's been the best tool out there for quite a few years for building your own apps and collecting data with mobile forms (we were doing low-code before it was cool). Our product focus for a long time was on makin…
- Weekend Reading: Human Leverage, Alan Kay, and Mapping the NBA
🏋🏽‍♀️ Finding the Point of Human Leverage Automation is penetrating every industry, but still heavily reliant on human behavior and feedback to make it effective. In this piece, Benedict Evans talks about identifyin…
- Weekend Reading: CAC, Alexander Hamilton, and Flow
🛒 What is Customer Acquisition Cost? This is a great overview of the importance of CAC in a SaaS business. One of the enjoyable things about SaaS is how much you can modify and optimize what you’re doing by measuring…
- Link Queueing with Shortcuts
Most reading on my iPad happens in Reeder, Instapaper, or a browser. I wanted to come up with a way to save URLs in a text file for easy access for new link posts and archive purposes. This seems like a great candidat…
- Fireflies and Algorithms
This is an interesting piece from OpenCorporates on tech disruption in corporate infrastructure: Companies are nothing more than legal constructs. They are artificial persons created by states or courts, and given the…