A crisis can drive innovation. Being able to hold the software in your head at a high level because it is well architected can give you many ways out of a bad situation. Often you surprise yourself how easy a leap forward can be once you have no choice but to find a way! Many of these great ideas live in the back of your head and a crisis will force one to the surface. Solving a problem, in a beautiful way, when your back is against the wall is a rush, and thrill. Especially when you may have been the first to solve it that way.

Categories: The art of software development
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CEOs are story tellers; you’ve got to create a story people want to work for, a story people want to buy, a story people want to invest in. A fantastic story may be your last when it doesn’t come true. An unexciting story may never get off the ground. How far do you stick your neck out to create goosebumps–that’s the rub.

Categories: Entrepreneurism, Journal, Notes to myself, CEO musings
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