10 tech laws that every entrepreneur should know ( and how to use them )

Speaking plainly: if you want to build a product or team that isn't a disaster, there are 10 tech laws that act as golden rules.

The basics that nobody understands:

• Gall: Don't make a monster from day 1. Simple system → complex system. MVP is your friend.
• Pareto: 20% of your work generates 80% of the results. Identify what really matters and eliminate the rest.
• Parkinson: If you give a task 6 months, it will take 6 months. Short deadlines rush the work.

The mess of the teams:

• Brooks: Adding people to a late project makes it later. Small teams > giant teams.
• Dunbar: Your brain only processes ~150 deep relationships. Above that, everything falls apart. Scale up, but with caution.
• Conway: Your organization will reflect how your people communicate. Strange structure = strange product.

What moved the market:

• Moore: Transistors double every 2 years, price drops to half. Ride the wave.
• Metcalfe: Network value = n² (number of connected users). Exponential, dad.

Unix Philosophy + Goodhart: Do each thing well, modular. But be careful: when a metric becomes your goal, you stop measuring the real.

TL;DR: Start small, identify what matters, keep teams lean, and scale smart.