For all builders who aren't taught business
Business, explained for people who build things.
Short videos and plain-English notes on careers, money, leadership and office life. The parts of work nobody teaches you in a technical job.
235 short videos · 7 topics · 1,220 terms explained
Views so far
195,649
across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, including promoted posts
- YouTube 37,959
- Instagram 103,493
- TikTok 54,197
Latest videos.
All 235 videosMicrosoft Outage may be costing you customers in your app, not just an email glitch, watch on YouTube
Decisiveness is not speed and your team knows, watch on YouTube
Why the people who get hired are too overworked to train you, watch on YouTube
Confidence at work is not the same as rudeness, watch on YouTube
Too many meetings and no time left for the work itself? Stop scheduling the ones you call, push back…, watch on Instagram
Individual contributor is a valid career, watch on YouTube
Your staff turnover isn't a hiring problem, watch on YouTube
Topics.
Every video and article, sorted by what it's about. Start wherever your week went wrong.
Build the tech.
Making technology a business can rely on, from AI to the calls that decide what gets built.
Survive the business.
Getting on in the company around you: careers, hiring, managing and being managed.
- Careers & hiringGetting hired, getting paid, and hiring well.44 videos
- Leadership, management & mentoringRunning a team without becoming the problem.31 videos
- Mindset & personal growthThe habits behind a long career.38 videos
- Work-life & productivityGetting the work done and still having a life.16 videos
Speak both languages.
Turning tech talk into business talk, and back again.
Term of the day
AI agent
An AI system that doesn't just answer but takes actions to complete a goal, such as searching, using other software or writing and running code, often over several steps.
The glossary.
The business words technical people meet at work, in plain English. What they mean, how you'll hear them, and why they matter to you.
Decode a sentence.
Paste the email that confused you. Glossary terms are highlighted; select one to see what it means.
How it works: a few lines of JavaScript match your text against the glossary, in your browser. No AI, and nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
Who's behind it.
Dr Simon Wallace: a statistician turned CTO, and a tech nerd who learned to speak human. He's spent fifteen years translating between business, product and engineering, and now runs Demonstrandum, a data, technology and AI consultancy.
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