The first issue is always an experiment in balance: ink and intention, sentiment and utility.
A front page must be bold, but it must also breathe.
This Chronicle opens with a headline older than the paper itself.
KudosIdeas.com first went to print in early 2012.
After my first full year working at a software company, I had little to no idea how to run a business—only the urge to build one. Kudos Ideas was meant to be a workshop: a place to launch ideas, provide software services, and host small Dojos—free, community-driven sessions that were sometimes sponsored so the doors could stay open.
The original pressrun was short. Within a year, we closed and put it to rest. Not because the work was meaningless—because the work was real. And real work exposes the gaps: the parts you only learn by carrying the weight yourself.
In December 2025, I was able to purchase the domain again.
And in January 2026, I relaunched it—rebranded, rebuilt, and finally ready to document the next chapter with fewer illusions and better tools.
What will be printed here
This paper keeps three recurring sections—each one a different kind of record:
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A Journal of Software Engineering
Architecture decisions, delivery lessons, postmortems, and the practical craft of shipping. -
An Experimental Codex
Prototypes, tests, discarded paths, and the “odd little experiments” that eventually become obvious. -
An Entrepreneurship Projection
Business notes from the field: positioning, pricing, distribution, and the hard parts people politely skip.
Some entries will be polished. Others will be raw and close to the bone. Both belong here.
What changed since 2012
If the first version was built on energy, this one is built on patterns—earned and sometimes expensive.
The Chronicle will return to a few recurring themes, because they are the ones that shape everything else:
- Sales: learning to tell the truth without underselling the work
- Hiring: choosing people carefully—and building systems that support them
- Delivery: meeting the real world, not the ideal plan
- Burnout: recognizing the hidden costs of “always on”
- Relocation: rebuilding stability while moving across countries and contexts
- Family: the anchor behind every decision that actually matters
If you read long enough, you’ll see the same lesson in different clothing: good outcomes rarely come from talent alone—they come from repeatable practice.
Correspondence
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