A note from the author

Startups, software, and novels might seem pretty different—but in my mind they’re closely related because they’re about creating something from nothing. Each requires following threads to uncertain destinations. Each involves the highs and lows of putting yourself out there: one minute thinking you have something good and it propels you forward, the next day deciding everything you did was crap.

Something I’ve done as a novelist that I definitely copied from building companies and software is aim to get honest feedback. This is why I think I’ve had more beta readers than most. I also research intensely because I love seeing through the eyes of others, whether a customer with a problem to be solved or the model for a fictional character.

I sometimes blog about startup and technical topics. In Tracing the Transformer in Diagrams, I tried to wrap my head around what may prove to be the most important invention of the 21st century. Trying out DALL·E 2 is a reminder of just how crazy it seemed back in 2022 that computers could generate images from text prompts.

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