Thoughts & Musings

— by Glenn Gillen

23/07/2025

The industrial revolution for knowledge work has begun

Exploring the parallels between the industrial revolution and the AI revolution for knowledge workers.

12/05/2025

Lionel Messi's left foot doesn't need AI

What would the world's greatest footballer use AI for if he could apply it to his game?

09/05/2025

Kaizen via AI - Part II

Exploring how different tools are helping me work faster, experiment more, and stay (relatively) sane in a messy workflow.

09/04/2025

Kaizen via AI - Part I

I've been playing with various AI tools, but have I really been trying to improve my productivity with AI? Time to make it intentional.

02/05/2023

Setting up multiple YubiKeys + git signing on macOS

23/02/2023

A sensible approach to compensation for remote teams

08/02/2023

Investment Flashback - Tractor Ventures

07/02/2023

Investment Flashback - Multitudes

06/02/2023

Investment Flashback - Stackshare

04/05/2022

Safely migrating a Ruby app from Heroku to AWS Serverless

30/03/2022

Rust: Create a basic web/HTTP server

25/03/2022

Rust: Convert a data structure into a JSON string

24/03/2022

Rust: Making a HTTP POST request (with parameters)

24/03/2022

Rust: Making a HTTP GET request

23/03/2022

Rust: Executing external commands

23/03/2022

Rust: How to read environment variables

22/03/2022

Nim: How to parse nested JSON into objects

21/03/2022

Nim: How to make a HTTP POST request

21/03/2022

Nim: Making a HTTP GET request

21/03/2022

Nim: Executing external commands

21/03/2022

Nim: Finding & extracting substrings

21/03/2022

Nim: How to read environment variables

21/03/2022

Nim: How to build a HTTP server

21/03/2022

How I learn new systems languages

12/07/2021

Getting to the Product Manager interview stage

07/06/2021

Building & Debugging Custom Container Images for Lambda

26/02/2017

Origin stories

A look at how Silicon Valley came to be, and how little it might take to create the next one.

15/08/2016

First, state the problem

When it matters most, when the pressure is high, when we feel a sense of urgency. That's when we're most likely to ignore the obvious advice.

09/08/2016

Picks & Shovels

The bottom-up economy, and how the this next generation of tools is changing how everyone will do business.

21/06/2016

How to build an ecosystem

If you want to build a successful and self-sustaining ecosystem it needs to start with deliberate and intentional seeding (aka: what mushrooms can teach us about startup hubs).

12/05/2016

The Coders of 2021

What does the future look like? How will people be building applications in 2021?

30/04/2016

Investing in Australian Startups

17/02/2016

Startup accelerators & incubators

13/02/2016

The Australian Startup Scene

I keep being asked "What's the startup scene like in Australia?". It's amazing, and it's just getting started.

07/11/2014

Why I invested in StackShare.io

Why I think StackShare is solving an important problem at the right time, and how it will change the way developers discover services.

07/01/2014

Portable, Shareable Application Development Environments

A story of how I learned to outsource my development environment.

28/12/2013

Making things is fun. There's a special sense of accomplishment that comes from creating something from a series of parts that previously seemed to be nothing. There's a joy that comes when that something is deemed useful or enjoyable by another person. And a gut-wrenching feeling of depression when others write off your work as useless because it doesn't solve their problem.

30/11/2013

On meritocracy

Meritocracy is a word that gets thrown around a lot, seemingly more so lately. Unfortunately for those who use it, it rarely means what they think it means.

23/07/2013

On hiring

14/12/2012

On entitlement

06/09/2010

Agile Development: The quickstart guide to doing it right

Agile development and project management is a bit of a buzz phrase, and has been for quite a few years. Truth is, in my experience very few places are able to make it work. The following is a summary of the things that places that "make it work" consistently do.

27/08/2007

Adding yourself to the sudoers file

If you've gone at least some way to trying to make your server secure, you wont be running as root so you wont have access to many of the administration commands you'll need. It's easily resolved by adding yourself to the sudoers file, here's a quick guide on how to do it. Unless you've already got an account with sudo access, you're going to need to log in as root one last time to set one up. So do the following: And enter in the password for root…

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Thoughts & Musings

— by Glenn Gillen

The industrial revolution for knowledge work has begun

Lionel Messi's left foot doesn't need AI

Kaizen via AI - Part II

Kaizen via AI - Part I

Setting up multiple YubiKeys + git signing on macOS

A sensible approach to compensation for remote teams

Investment Flashback - Tractor Ventures

Investment Flashback - Multitudes

Investment Flashback - Stackshare

Safely migrating a Ruby app from Heroku to AWS Serverless

Learning web3

Rust: Create a basic web/HTTP server

Rust: Parse a URL

Rust: Read a file

Rust: Write a file

Rust: Parse nested JSON

Rust: Convert a data structure into a JSON string

Rust: Parsing JSON

Rust: Making a HTTP POST request (with parameters)

Rust: Making a HTTP GET request

Rust: Data structures

Rust: Extracting substrings

Rust: Executing external commands

Rust: Concatenating strings

Rust: How to read environment variables

Learning Rust

Nim: How to parse a URL/URI

Nim: How to write a file

Nim: How to read a file

Nim: How to parse nested JSON into objects

Nim: Object to JSON

Nim: How to parse JSON

Nim: How to make a HTTP POST request

Nim: Making a HTTP GET request

Nim: Data Structures

Nim: Executing external commands

Nim: Finding & extracting substrings

Nim: Concatenating strings

Nim: How to read environment variables

Nim: How to build a HTTP server

Learning Nim

How I learn new systems languages

Always take the interview

Getting to the Product Manager interview stage

Building & Debugging Custom Container Images for Lambda

Tall Poppies

Self-reflection on diversity

Appreciating the craft

Origin stories

First, state the problem

Picks & Shovels

Why I invested in Stamplay

How to build an ecosystem

The Coders of 2021

Your talent isn't expensive

A tale of two investments

Investing in Australian Startups

Startup accelerators & incubators

ABCs of Startup Financing

The Australian Startup Scene

Why I invested in StackShare.io

Portable, Shareable Application Development Environments

On empathy

On meritocracy

On hiring

On entitlement

Agile Development: The quickstart guide to doing it right

Adding yourself to the sudoers file