Tech Department of One

In conversation with the people building the next decade.

Featured interviews with thinkers, operators, and builders. A secondary series alongside our regular Member Stories.

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How Bruce Is Becoming a Public Benefit Company: Eric Ries Advises Bruce on Staying Incorruptible

We are becoming a Public Benefit Company. Eric Ries, who advised Anthropic on the same structure, sat down to advise us on the first principle to encode, and on how to tell, years from now, whether we kept it.

Jun 23, 2026 4 min read

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Lenny Rachitsky on Building Without Code

Lenny Rachitsky built one of the most influential newsletters in tech. The week we spoke, he'd also shipped a soundboard of his son's voice for his wife and a website that scrapes images out of Google Docs. Here's the playbook he says any non-tech operator can run this weekend.

May 22, 2026 4 min read