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New here: I am a startup business coach at an European, no strings attached, accelerator. This makes my advise less tech oriented. Unless your stack is very de
by JGM_io 7y ago
New here: I am a startup business coach at an European, no strings attached, accelerator. This makes my advise less tech oriented.
Unless your stack is very deep or highly specialised I would say the following: I don't have a specific book in mind but with code slowly becoming a commodity I would advise content that intersects tech with business or UX. Anything not IP or otherwise USP to your company can be built by reusing other's work.
Also learning the mindset to leverage repo's and API's to the max so effective productivity is realised is super important.
- ammanley 7y agoWould you be willing to expand on this? I have observed in my work that code is less and less about "technical innovation" and more about figuring out _which_ of the myriad number of tools, libraries, and abstractions are best suited to solving a particular (usually business process) problem. Seems like you'd know a thing or two about this. (yes, this puts me in the not-vaunted-line-of-business category of programmers - welp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
- JGM_io 7y agoI wouldn't call myself an expert but tech facilitates business (value for society captured by an organisation) and I see many product or tech oriented founders losing sight the life blood of a company: money and time where time > money. So I don't think it is about a set of information/processes as it is a mindset to set aside the ego that wants beautiful code and be ruthlessly effective