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The way I write code hasn’t really changed that much since my early days as a J2EE developer.  Patterns I established then are still pretty close to what I use today (in the limited time I am still in the code).  Languages, frameworks, tools, testing approaches, and...

In 2016, Gain Compliance identified that the market for statutory financial reporting software was woefully underserved. The options that insurance carriers had to fulfill their statutory financial reporting requirements were, by modern standards, pretty...

Another year in the books. Time, once again, for our annual introspection. (By way of reference, here are the retrospectives from last year, our 5th anniversary, our 4th anniversary, 3rd anniversary, and first. Somehow, we missed the second year – probably for good...

Following up Gain's last post, here are my reflections after having spent several days in the Exhibitor Hall and a few sessions at IASA Xchange last week: Compared this to Gain’s first IASA National Conference in 2018, the feel was a bit different. Gone are the big...

It was 2018 and I was in Nashville attending my first IASA event. I was somewhat sweaty from helping to break down our exhibitor booth and I was sitting in this spectacular atrium of the hotel and convention center that held the event. I was feeling that good kind of...

In Adam Grant’s 2021 book ‘Think Again’, the author suggests that we should think like scientists in both our work and our lives. We should approach our opinions and beliefs as theories that we test to see if they align with observable facts, and if they don’t, we...

It’s remarkable how little innovation there has been in the world of insurance statutory financial reporting. For well over the past decade, reporting teams have been resigned to using outdated and backwards technology with questionable performance and reliability to...

In startup methodology, the first thing teams do once they have their initial business concept is Discovery. This is a process of in-depth interviews with potential customers which serves a dual purpose. One, it guides the development of the business concept, and two,...

Dan Lyons’ book ‘Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble’, is the true story of a journalist that goes to work at Hubspot as a ‘marketing fellow’ after losing his job at Newsweek. He’s one of hundreds of Hubspot employees, he’s twice the average age of the...