Still in MVP mode - but it already made some sales.

What's different about it from similar solutions is the way you can get data from an Excel file (most other companies have the JSON and CSV figured out).

It supports Excel style addressing so it's pretty flexible on how you reach for the data inside a PowerPoint template (access every sheet, every cell, named range or table to use it in merging process).

People use it for various kinds of use-cases - creating certificates, automating pricing offers, delivering employee feedback forms, preparing market research presentations and even subtitles for a theatrical play.

- Death or Scrum? - asked the CEO

The employees knew nothing about this Scrum thing, but were to intimidated to ask and the other choice was one they were not ready to make.

The first one thus replied in a quavering voice: "Scrum"

In this moment the first employee was grabbed by the CTO and was put through horrors not many could withstand:

- Neverending sprint planning meetings

- Daily Scrums that lasted 4 hours

- The sprint reviews

- Sprint retrospectives

- The backlog refinements

After all this the employee was only able to say: "Still working on User Story XYZ. No impediments."

The CEO then asked the second employee what their answer was. The employee was fighting a tough fight in their head.

"I hate meetings, I would love to do some real work, but I'm not ready to die yet. On the other hand, I can't go through life after all that abuse; There's no way I could live with myself". So he answered: DEATH!

To this the CEO swiftly replied: Death ... by Scrum

On the question of "how to think clearly" - I'd say it's pretty individual - some people start "from the bottom", some "from the top" and others "in the middle". Experience is to know which is which and which approach suits you best.

It's like software development got trapped inside of King Julian's (from Madagascar movies/series) brain with his modus operandi: "let's start doing this before we figure out it does not make any sense".

Mr. Stoll wrote something along the lines: "Some people who are offline feel that they are cut off from some very important aspect of the present day. However, only in some ways everyday life requires either computers or access to digital networks. They are irrelevant to cooking, driving, receiving guests, talking, eating, walking, dancing and gossiping. There is no need for a computer to bake bread, play football, sew a bedspread, build a fence, recite a poem or say a prayer."

In EU we had a discussion about link tax and some related areas regarding remuneration for content providers by content distribution platforms (search engines - prominently Google and social media sites like FB, Twitter, etc.). Back then I was strongly against this new laws as some of the newly proposed regulations bundled with link tax I considered potentially harmful for e.g. opensource software managed in GitHub repos.

When I think of the link tax now and after reading this rant defending FB, I lean towards the link tax.

Quotes like make me shiver: "First is the link tax. This is fundamentally against the principles of an open internet. The government saying that you can't link to a news site unless you pay a tax should be seen as inherently problematic for a long list of reasons."

I don't think we should put FB and open internet in the same sentence. Sharing the news is available all the time, through e-mail, slack, SMS or any other mean of electronic communication. It has just stopped being available through FB (a private, global corporation) who will STOP benefiting from it.