Longreads from the Rocketship

A Minimum Viable Product, or MVP, has one goal: collecting information. An MVP is a basic prototype you build to determine what your market wants.

But entrepreneurs often get the wrong idea and think their MVP is something it is not. In most cases, it won’t make very much money at all. Instead, it will show you how you can solidify your business model to make money in the future.

Leadership is an intangible skill, and that makes it hard to describe. What makes an effective team leader can’t be captured in a short definition. The needs and goals of leadership vary across time, industry, and department.

While Ruby has its competitors, over 1 million live websites are currently running on Ruby. And several major companies, including Airbnb and Shopify, were developed using Ruby.

Now 27 years old (old enough to vote!), Ruby is as alive as ever. Nearly two decades of growth and development have made it a powerful tool for building web applications.

Leadership is a multifaceted skill. Depending on their context, a leader may have to perform administrative tasks, social activities, and even technical operations. Good leaders perform many different kinds of labor.

Although leadership is first and foremost a social role, it has often been forgotten that much of it entails emotional labor. Leaders are ultimately responsible for their organization's health, which requires cultivating practical attitudes in themselves and others.

Over the long term, the cost of emotional labor can add up. Managers experience burnout, fatigue, and depression from working themselves too hard. But there are several strategies that you can employ to prevent this from occurring.

As the World Wide Web enters its mid-30s, web development continues to grow and expand in new and exciting ways. Developers are tinkering with ways to bring faster, smarter, and more fun experiences to the public.