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Technology in the context of running a business. Bad websites, industry rules that don’t actually matter, and what happens when AWS goes down and takes half the internet with it.

“Industry Rules Revisited” comes from something I’ve noticed over years in this business: most of what we obsess over does not actually matter. That post lays out what does.

I am amazed all the time at how big businesses have such terrible websites. “Why Are Big Company Websites So Bad?” tries to explain how companies with massive budgets end up with sites that barely function.

“The AWS Outage Nobody Saw Coming” is about the day AWS went down and what it revealed about how dependent modern businesses have become on infrastructure they don’t control.

More posts coming as I keep finding things in business tech worth writing about.