Who is Nnamdi?

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn't have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today

Robinhood traders get fleeced not by HFTs front-running milliseconds before their order hits but by other retail investors, days earlier.

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies

The longer you search for product-market fit, the less likely you will find it.

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

In enterprise software, the "average" customer is a meaningless concept. Instead, focus on the tails.

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

VCs are picky, not because they have so many options but because they have so few.

You might think the value of a college degree has been increasing. You would be wrong.

Do college-educated developers earn more? Yes, but less than you might think

When to raise capital, what to expect from VCs, and the "new normal"

Working remote even just a few days per month leads to higher pay

Progress on narrowing pay gaps among software developers

Engineers are the basic economic unit of modern software development. The software production function depends critically on developer productivity and compensation. And yet software engineering pay remains poorly understood.

A quick visit to the Red Sea