Austin Spires

Essays on product, strategy, and life.

November 28, 2024

On balancing information consumption and digestion

Reflecting on the joy of learning new facts vs. the time it takes to meaningfully process

September 6, 2024

Move towards the hard thing

Writing a pep talk for my past, present, and future self

September 3, 2024

The uncertain future of industry events

Thoughts on the end and beginning of industry events

April 9, 2024

My chili recipe, backstory included

My attempt at recreating Wolf Brand chili, the greatest chili ever

April 1, 2024

Why do we create?

An ode to the intangible urge to make something where there was nothing before

October 5, 2015

(2015) Building Fastly's Initial Support, Parts 1-4

A deep dive on building the intial iteractions of Fastly's best-in-class support posture

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January 27, 2015

Life Advice from Werner Hertzog

Reblogging a list of life advice from the famed director

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October 5, 2014

Procrasti-working and Lettering

Notes from experimenting with some fun outlets

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February 15, 2014

Grok the customer

Encouragement to learn -- really learn -- the nuances of your customer

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January 20, 2014

Shoutout to Ops

A 'Thank You' to the countless teams and people who keep our systems online

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