Stephen H Fishman

"The digital economy moves at breakneck speed...Successful digital companies handle this pace by spending less time trying to predict the future and more time preparing for any eventuality." From Unbundling the Enterprise by @fistsOfReason and @MattMcLartyBC, available now!

If you were lucky enough to read an early release of Unbundling the Enterprise, now's your chance to share your thoughts with the world! Reviews on Amazon really help books find new readers, so why not leave a review while you're thinking about it? itrev.io/3zgeI0y

Today, we are happy to welcome Unbundling the Enterprise to our shelves! This book by Stephen Fishman and Matt McLarty will help your organization take advantage of the kind of happy accidents that led to Slack, Coca-Cola, and Google Maps. Available now!

Unlock digital success with Unbundling the Enterprise by @fistsOfReason and @MattMcLartyBC. Discover the mindset shift needed to engineer "happy accidents" in today's tech-driven world! itrev.io/49WDH66

Unbundling the Enterprise by @fistsOfReason and @MattMcLartyBC: your guide to thriving in the digital economy. Learn to leverage APIs, create reusable digital assets, and capitalize on emerging opportunities. itrev.io/4bbgI7i

We're happy to announce a new book by @fistsOfReason and @MattMcLartyBC . Coming in September, Unbundling the Enterprise reveals the methods today's top companies are using to thrive in the digital economy and make their own luck. itrev.io/3Qf6nQ8

Today I finished reviewing an early copy of "Unbundling the Enterprise" by @fistsOfReason and @MattMcLartyBC. What a fantastic read, and I learned a ton, and it reinforced some fantastic lessons. Incredible business value is unlocked by creating or preserving option value. For instance, mdoualrity doesn't just create independence of action, but it enables unbundling capabilities, which itself can also unlock incredible value. Incontrovertible truths: 1. A winning strategy is: Plan early, but decide late (because you will have more information). This is good for applying for colleges, dating, but also business decisions — you don't want to say "yes" to the first option that presents itself. As they write, "slowing down the process of making commitments conserves 'optionality.'" 2. Dr. Carliss Baldwin taught us that option value is less valuable when consumer tastes are homogeneous and predictable. (i.e., all choices are the same) Option value is very valuable when consumer tastes are heterogenous or unpredictable, or when technology trajectories are uncertain. (i.e., there are wildly different choices) 3. Under most conditions, you want many simultaneous experiments happening in parallel (which modularity definitely enables). And you also want low cost of experimentation. Together, this allows the largest frontier of decisions to be evaluated. Okay, I have so many other notes — will dive into those another time. This is going to be a fantastic book! amazon.com/Unbundling-Ent…

@chenj7 @RealGeneKim @mtnygard Agree again with @mtnygard - a big problem in engineering and arch circles is an over rotation on “fit for purpose”. Somehow, people have come to believe that the shortest path possible is therefore the appropriate path - “if you can’t name the use case, it’s not real”

@RealGeneKim @mtnygard Ok tell if I got this wrong. I read 1000 words that basically boiled down to “TLDR use proper abstractions for your API”

There's no better person to explain this mind-blowing concept than @mtnygard! I still don't understand the full implications, but to fully enable and liberate your API consumers (or customers), maybe the best thing to do is to know nothing about them. Why? By knowing something about what they give you (e.g., parameters, arguments), you risk making assumptions about them, and thus constrain their usage. Crazy sounding, but true! cc @fistsOfReason michaelnygard.com/blog/2024/02/c…

@timothypotter @RealGeneKim @mtnygard Feel free anytime @timothypotter

@RealGeneKim @mtnygard Think I’m going to cc @fistsOfReason in more tweets because it sounds badass.

@RealGeneKim @mtnygard Information hiding actually works 2 ways… it absolves the consumer of having to know/care about the implementation and it absolves the provider of having to know/care about what the consumer will do with it

@RealGeneKim @mtnygard I’m with both of you here. There’s a difference between “knowing your customer” (gathering knowledge to inform your design) and “designing for too specific of a context” (killing off optionality).

Incredible venue for @ITRevDOES here at the Cosmo in Vegas! @fistsOfReason and I are up next…

“In the digital seas, there are opportunities everywhere. There’s buried treasure all over our digital island. But maybe the most valuable treasure of all is one we don’t know about today.” 🌊🏴‍☠️ –@MattMcLartyBC and @FistsOfReason on the science of happy accidents #DOES23

@patrickdebois Look to the intended outcome, and remember, it depends on the audience consuming the doc. E.g., “time to first deploy” for new team members or “calls avoided/optimized” or “time to first/second call” for external developers

How would you measure good technical documentation ?

“Perhaps the disappearance of the workplace will increase modern anomie and loneliness. If community means “where you keep showing up,” then, for many people, the office is all that’s left. What happens when it goes the way of bowling leagues and weekly church attendance?”

WooHoo! Who's going to join us in Amsterdam?? #DOES23

That's a wrap for #APIs Unplugged Season 3! Our highlights episode features @libel_vox @shensi @GilFeig @barbmaclean @fistsOfReason @hkarmark @seanfalconer @dianamontalion @matthewpskelton @manupaisable @mamund @MattMcLartyBC and more! Listen here: soundcloud.com/mulesoft/apis-…

#APIs Unplugged - S3 E16 - Season 3 Highlights with @libel_vox @shensi @GilFeig @barbmaclean @fistsOfReason @hkarmark @seanfalconer @dianamontalion @matthewpskelton @manupaisable @mamund @MattMcLartyBC and more! Listen here: soundcloud.com/mulesoft/apis-…

another episode of APIs Unplugged (S3 E15) dropped today. this time it is "Origin of the API Economy" with friend-of-the-show Stephen Fishman (@FistsOfReason). b.mamund.com/3XMZ7wh #api360 #podcasting ##apiEconomy

New #APIsUnplugged episode alert! I was very excited to chat with @mamund and @fistsOfReason about the origins of the #API economy... tracing backward from the Yegge rant to the Bezos mandate to a blog post from Tim O'Reilly. Listen here: soundcloud.com/mulesoft/apis-…