Kris Brandow

They're pretty good when you've cataloged things, but they're not good at all when you're just doing full text search because words have so many different meanings. And you have to, you know, it's basically a guess of,

They're pretty good when you've cataloged things, but they're not good at all when you're just doing full text search because words have so many different meanings. And you have to, you know, it's basically a guess of,

The person who wrote this, are they going to use the same words that I'm using to try and find it, which is just a not fun matching game if you haven't already decided on the words you're going to use and what those words mean, which is effectively what cataloging gives you.

The person who wrote this, are they going to use the same words that I'm using to try and find it, which is just a not fun matching game if you haven't already decided on the words you're going to use and what those words mean, which is effectively what cataloging gives you.

I also think part of the problem here is that no one really understands. I think especially executives do not understand the insane amount of money that they are throwing in the trash because they have not organized their information properly. Like, you're paying software engineers, like, total comp, even for mid-level engineers, is sometimes in excess of a quarter million dollars a year.

I also think part of the problem here is that no one really understands. I think especially executives do not understand the insane amount of money that they are throwing in the trash because they have not organized their information properly. Like, you're paying software engineers, like, total comp, even for mid-level engineers, is sometimes in excess of a quarter million dollars a year.

And you're now paying people that you're paying, like, a cumulative half million dollars a year, or if you have a meeting, like, millions of dollars a year to just talk to each other instead of just having them read some document, right? So now you're having them waste hours of time to go read, instead of reading something, to go talk to someone to coordinate. And now they're blocked.

And you're now paying people that you're paying, like, a cumulative half million dollars a year, or if you have a meeting, like, millions of dollars a year to just talk to each other instead of just having them read some document, right? So now you're having them waste hours of time to go read, instead of reading something, to go talk to someone to coordinate. And now they're blocked.

And now your entire system has, like, slowed to a crawl Because you can't actually get the information to the people when they need it. And you're having more bugs. You're not building as many features. Everything is slowed down. And I think the only reason this is tolerable is because everybody's doing it.

And now your entire system has, like, slowed to a crawl Because you can't actually get the information to the people when they need it. And you're having more bugs. You're not building as many features. Everything is slowed down. And I think the only reason this is tolerable is because everybody's doing it.

If there were a couple of companies that had their information organized well, they'd be running circles around everybody else. Like their products would be higher quality. They'd have fewer bugs. They'd have fewer problems just because they wouldn't run into the typical things that we all as engineers experience every day. But it was like, oh, there's this problem.

If there were a couple of companies that had their information organized well, they'd be running circles around everybody else. Like their products would be higher quality. They'd have fewer bugs. They'd have fewer problems just because they wouldn't run into the typical things that we all as engineers experience every day. But it was like, oh, there's this problem.

And oh, yep, I called it out, but I couldn't talk to the team or the team didn't want to listen to me. Or we had the same meeting five times. We made five different decisions each time, right? Like the lack of having information where we want it winds up with us losing a lot of money and losing out on market opportunities we'd have otherwise.

And oh, yep, I called it out, but I couldn't talk to the team or the team didn't want to listen to me. Or we had the same meeting five times. We made five different decisions each time, right? Like the lack of having information where we want it winds up with us losing a lot of money and losing out on market opportunities we'd have otherwise.

And, you know, I just think that the executives who are in charge of caring about this money and caring about this don't understand that this is happening. It's completely opaque to them.

And, you know, I just think that the executives who are in charge of caring about this money and caring about this don't understand that this is happening. It's completely opaque to them.

I'm busy editing podcasts, Jared. Come on, man. I'm a pro. I'm trying to spin up this whole writing, publishing career. And also now I have a whole podcast I'm doing. There's things in the queue. There's things in the queue, Jared. We will get there.

I'm busy editing podcasts, Jared. Come on, man. I'm a pro. I'm trying to spin up this whole writing, publishing career. And also now I have a whole podcast I'm doing. There's things in the queue. There's things in the queue, Jared. We will get there.

I met him at GopherCon a number of years ago. And, yeah, I spent a whole bunch of time with him at GopherCon in 2024. And when we were like, oh, we're going to spin off GoTime, he was like the second person. The first person I thought of was Matt. And I was like, oh, got to try and get Matt on. And I was like, who else? I'm like, oh, Dylan. Got to try and get Dylan on.

I met him at GopherCon a number of years ago. And, yeah, I spent a whole bunch of time with him at GopherCon in 2024. And when we were like, oh, we're going to spin off GoTime, he was like the second person. The first person I thought of was Matt. And I was like, oh, got to try and get Matt on. And I was like, who else? I'm like, oh, Dylan. Got to try and get Dylan on.