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I'm passionate about building world-class teams.

I love building things - I used to be a programmer (not a particularly good one), then I tried to be a designer (wasn't great at that either). On the journey, I started and helped grow a few companies, some of which didn't work out (read: miserably failed), but several of which have gone on to do exceptionally well.

What I've learned (so far!) is that I'm actually pretty good at finding lots of people much smarter than I am, bringing them together and empowering them to produce fantastic things. Nowadays, I run a software business called Pinpoint that helps businesses all over the world do exactly that - build the incredible teams they need to achieve their goals.

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Launch of the 3rd Edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book 12 years ago

Rails Tutorial (and Railsspace w/ Aurelius) are what I used to learn rails. Your teaching style and practical implementation worked where other resources didn't. Thanks so much for not only releasing this but continually revisiting it and keeping it fresh.

It's also super refreshing to see the changes made to the TDD approach in this revision. I run a small community coding programme for people new to programming and whilst we love referring to Rails Tutorial (among other things), the students often get massively disheartened when they have to face the dreaded wall of testing before they can actually produce something tangible. I completely get the merits of TDD, but I definitely favour the 'produce something interesting, get excited about it and then revisit it and understand how it works' approach for newer students.

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Notes from YC Startup School Europe 12 years ago

Expanding on the idea of 'redefining success', I love how he explained that if the answer to the "What can I do to make you happy?" question was too complex to implement, he'd just keep asking different people until he found problems that were relatively easy to solve.

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Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO 12 years ago

I also found it interesting that they felt the need to include a photo of Satya looking chilled out in a hoodie. Just feels really forced - it seems completely out of character based on all of his other imagery / appearances elsewhere.

There is nothing wrong with the guy wearing suits to work if he wants, but it seems that they're trying unnecessarily hard to make him fit some sort of cool geek stereotype.

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