Software and its Discontents, Part 3: Rising Cost and Elusive Success | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about the current state of tech, startups and software has gone quite wrong.
This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about the current state of tech, startups and software has gone quite wrong. In part 1 , I wrote about how the macro-economic environment is driving the timing of this conversation, and in particular the impact that a decade of cheap money had on how we build software, and what the end of that decade means. In part 2 , I explored how building software is counter-intuitively harder today than ever, because the
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