The 5-Minute Startup CTO #72
Phone addiction, Building MVPs, Good strategy, Container orchestration
Hi,
I hope you’re all well! Here are this week’s 4 links:
👭 People
With the winter holidays upon us, now’s the perfect time to switch off from work and the online world.
But shouldn’t we do this all year long, to some extent? Kevin Roose documented some time ago how he ditched his phone and unbroke his brain. Mobile phone addiction could be one of those easy opportunities to boost your own, or a teammate’s, happiness and productivity, so this is well worth a read.
🥫 Product
By now everyone’s heard of MVPs, and most likely built one - or at least think they did.
Dmytro Zaichenko, via MindTheProduct, dives into the why, what and how of building an MVP: a good opportunity to check that we really know what we are doing, and are doing it well.
🔄 Process
Will Larson explains that good strategy is boring and how to create a technical strategy: synthesize 5 design docs into a strategy, then extrapolate 5 strategies into a vision.
I kind of think writing about engineering strategy is hard because good strategy is pretty boring, and it's kind of boring to write about. Also I think when people hear "strategy" they think "innovation" - Camille Fournier
⌨️ Tech
Sarmad Saleem with a nice, short overview of container orchestration tools: what they do, the most popular ones (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and more) and how to choose the most suitable solution for your team.
Until next time, have a great week!
Fabrice
The 5-Minute Startup CTO: every Sunday, 4 top insights in 5 minutes for startup CTOs and Tech Leads. Hand-picked by Fabrice.