Essays·11 essays
Future of Software
Malleable software, no-code, new ways to work with software, tools for collective thinking.
2026
- Malleable software = solid bases + custom code💎
In 2019 I bet on the no-code revolution. That bet aged so-so. Here is the new one.Aug 18
2025
2021
- Hypertext Tools From the 80s
The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.Apr 6 - Augmenting Organizational Intelligence💎
In a knowledge economy, we compete with knowledge, not force. Our productivity tools should become knowledge management tools as well — thus, making companies more intelligent.Mar 15
2019
- No-code Revolution. Why Now?
It seems no-code software is booming. Fast adoption, huge rounds, insane valuation 🦄, happy customers. Why now? Why not 20 years ago? Why…Sep 4 - Make your own tools
Not Invented Here is a popular mantra in many companies. Majority thinks that you should focus on business value, and all other things are…Feb 1
2018
- Strategy-Implementation Mismatch
JIRA is easy to hate. The latest article trashes JIRA and calls it an anti-pattern for software development. The main problem is work…Dec 14 - The Next Wave of Work Management Software
Work management software is boring. Innovations are rare and you may think that no cool new vendors appeared in the last 5 years. Indeed…Dec 3