I hope you find this newsletter, and I am honored to have you join.

This newsletter grew from my experience as a venture-backed startup and the problems I encountered while building a product, a team, and a business plan.

When my startup became a mess, I spent quality time reviewing what I had built and evaluating how I could have done things differently. I realized that I had built everything in-house and had ignored patterns that could have dramatically changed the company's trajectory.

Building a venture-backed startup is like running a marathon at a sprinter’s pace while staring at your feet. It’s hard to look ahead, to get context, and to find perspective!

That's the basis of my fractional CTO practice. I help founders make better technical decisions. This might sound simplistic, but many tropes and myths exist in the startup world.

You can find my fractional business here. You can find me on LinkedIn.

I send out a weekly newsletter on the differences between now-code and low-code. Soon, I will launch a low-code framework and review technology stack components that help founders build more with less code.

I am! I am my own IPC. I write this for myself. I have found that writing down what I glean while comparing solutions helps me crystallize my thinking, which ultimately provides a wider breadth of solutions.

Technology is just a tool. It’s not an end in itself.

The secret is to find the shortest path between inspiration and outcome. The outcome can be mission-driven, or it can be traditional revenue. There is something magical about helping a founder shorten the path between and get to results faster. It’s addictive.

Since launching this newsletter, my most significant learning has been that even the most battle-tested CTO or programmer sometimes has to start from scratch, like the founder who does not know how to code!

I assume that my peers (coders) would dismiss this newsletter. I have been pleasantly surprised by how senior technical people have resonated with the approach.

Welcome and be good!