TBM 427: The Bottleneck Strike Again! - by John Cutler (opens in new tab)

Imagine the “bottleneck” really was engineering or coding. What does that imply about the competitive game you were playing? Are you saying the only thing holding you back was something relatively commoditized—something you could just hire more people to do? What does that say? It suggests you were competing in a world where speed of execution mattered more than insight, where everyone was building roughly the same thing, and whoever shipped faster won. But if that’s true, you better hope eng...