I haven't got time to write a better comment, but stopping past to say that I've found Vertical Development the most helpful conceptual framework for my own growth and for making sense of others.
As a mental model, it has applications from very basic to extremely rich and complex.
I've worked as an eng/manager/executive coach and keep discovering new insights.
I always enjoy discussing it more if you're interested
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I was quite distracted by the "Murder she wrote" motif which kicks in at 0:23 on the video.
What pain point is this solving? I can see the usefulness of the photo of the Spire example, but as for traffic / most other real time issues, FB and Twitter work for those.
Can't beat Mailbox. Wish they had a desktop app too. The snoozing thing is essential for moving stuff out of my headspace until I can think about it. I wish everything in life had a swipe to snooze.
I know the author emphasizing a point, but the steps that he's described end with two vastly different results:
1 - A php script on a server with a script with some code on it.
vs
2 - A full featured MVC framework, complete with version control, database integration, easy deployment, which is easy for other developer to jump into, etc etc
As a mental model, it has applications from very basic to extremely rich and complex.
I've worked as an eng/manager/executive coach and keep discovering new insights.
I always enjoy discussing it more if you're interested