Estimating systems with napkin math (Interview)
Estimating systems with napkin math (Interview)  
Podcast: The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Published On: Fri Sep 11 2020
Description: We're joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.