Feb 18, 2026 from Steve Blank You Only Think They Work For You When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it was true for all of my external vendors. And much later ...
Feb 10, 2026 from Steve Blank Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened. And th...
Feb 09, 2026 from Michael Lynch Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied...
Feb 03, 2026 from Steve Blank Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by...
Feb 03, 2026 from Michael Lynch My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie foun...
Jan 29, 2026 from The Fly Blog Litestream Writable VFS I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s free, open-source software that should run anywhere, and you can read more abou...
Jan 14, 2026 from The Fly Blog The Design & Implementation of Sprites We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers and run them on our own hardware all around the world. But last week, we launche...
Jan 09, 2026 from The Fly Blog Code And Let Live The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral sandboxes are obsolete. Stop killing your sandbox...
Dec 16, 2025 from Steve Blank The Department of War Directory TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and serv...
Dec 11, 2025 from The Fly Blog Litestream VFS I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s free, open-source software that should run anywhere, and you can read more abou...
Dec 02, 2025 from Michael Lynch My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging When my wife saw me playing with my new encrypted radio, she asked what it was for. “Imagine,” I said, “if I could type a message on my phone and send it to you, and the message would appear on you...
Nov 11, 2025 from Steve Blank The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa...
Nov 06, 2025 from The Fly Blog You Should Write An Agent Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. T...
Oct 30, 2025 from Steve Blank It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing tactics on how to make the VP of Sales the richest person in the company. After...
Oct 22, 2025 from The Fly Blog Corrosion Fly.io transmogrifies Docker containers into Fly Machines: micro-VMs running on our own hardware all over the world. The hardest part of running this platform isn’t managing the servers, and it isn...
Oct 15, 2025 from Steve Blank How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory – Now with 500 more names The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2. The Department of War (DoW) is one of the world’s largest organizations. If you’re a startup trying to figure out who to call on and how to navigate the ...
Oct 13, 2025 from Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d...
Oct 08, 2025 from The Fly Blog Kurt Got Got The $FLY Airdrop is live! Claim your share of the token powering Fly.io’s global network of 3M+ apps and (🤮) own a piece of the sky! We know. Our Twitter got owned. We knew within moments of it hap...
Oct 02, 2025 from The Fly Blog Litestream v0.5.0 is Here I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream makes it easy to build SQLite-backed full-stack applications with resilience to server failure. It’s open source, runs anywhere, and ...
Sep 17, 2025 from Steve Blank When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis Great founders shine in a crisis. Ordinary ones watch their companies burn down. I just had coffee with two co-founders of an e-bike company who were mentoring one of our student teams. In short or...
