About me:

• Author of the blog The Roots of Progress
• Former co-founder & CEO of Fieldbook, a hybrid spreadsheet-database (read my postmortem)

Previously I have been an engineering manager at Flexport, Amazon and Groupon, and was at a few other startups as co-founder or early employee. Long ago I helped build a biotech supercomputer for D. E. Shaw Research. (Full resume on LinkedIn.)

The Roots of Progress

The Roots of Progress is my blog about the history of technology & industry, and more generally the story of human progress. This and related projects are my current full-time focus.

Other writing

Separately, I write here sporadically about startups, tech, business, and life. My writing has been featured on All Things D and Software Lead Weekly.

Some of my top posts:

• What happened at Fieldbook
• Minimum Viable Culture
• Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization
• How to be a culture mismatch at Amazon
• What allows Amazon to be so innovative?
• How to work with “stupid” people
• The real first-mover advantage
• Steve Jobs

For more, browse the archive.

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