Welcome To Building & Learning

Um, So Who Are You Exactly?

Hello! My name is Dan Milstein.

For the last 30 years, I've worked in various combinations of engineering and product — I love both disciplines, and value both super highly.

I've worked as a principal engineer building and operating complex systems; I've led product at startups desperately trying to find traction; I've managed engineering teams ranging in size from 2 to 500.

Okay, Fine, What Is This BlogSubstack All About?

I’ll be sharing things I’ve learned about the challenges of getting groups of humans to work together to create valuable software.

I Hear There’s a Book or Something?

Yep. I'm working on a book entitled:

Tech Investments, Not Tech Debt
How To Make Time For Engineering Work That Matters

In which I strongly recommend against employing the metaphor of “technical debt”, and instead lay out a plan for helping stakeholders see the potential value in work the engineers are eager to do.

If you're interested in being a beta reader at some stage of development, holler at me — I can be reached at milstein.dan@gmail.com.

I’ll be sharing excerpts and ideas on the blogSubstack.

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