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Luke Kanies
I’m a tech founder and recovering SysAdmin. I helped found DevOps and grew up in open source. These days I am convalescing from a decade of physical and mental neglect while running Puppet. Read more
Recent posts
View all- Building on ATProto 7/20/26
- AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant 5/12/25
- Those Great New Calendar Tools Probably Won't Help You 9/15/23
- Do I Hate Investors? 8/22/23
- My Monopolies 11/18/20
- Designing Tomorrow’s Privacy 10/22/20
- Don’t Make Board Decks 7/22/20
- Entrepreneur, Stage 1: Bootstrapping, Burnout, and Babies 7/7/20
- The First Two-Million-Dollar Check 6/30/20
- How TechCrunch is like the Iliad 5/21/20
Top posts
- AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant 5/12/25
- Do I Hate Investors? 8/22/23
- Entrepreneur, Stage 1: Bootstrapping, Burnout, and Babies 7/7/20
- The Automator's Dilemma 5/24/19
- Follow your weird 12/13/18
- Why We Hate Working for Big Companies 4/10/18
- Your Whiteboard and Post-Its Aren’t Kanban 3/1/17
- No, You Don’t Learn More from Failure 1/24/17
Series
Category
- Advice 7 posts
- AI 1 posts
- Apple 2 posts
- Automation 2 posts
- Blockchain 5 posts
- Crypto 5 posts
- Culture 5 posts
- Economics 9 posts
- Founder 15 posts
- Industry 1 posts
- Leadership 8 posts
- Local First 1 posts
- Managers 1 posts
- News 2 posts
- Opinion 47 posts
- Personal 11 posts
- Productivity 3 posts
- Protocols 1 posts
- Review 1 posts
- Science 1 posts
- Software 15 posts
- Startup 54 posts
- Strategy 10 posts
- Technology 18 posts
- Tools 13 posts
- Venture Capital 19 posts
- Writing 3 posts
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