My co-founder, who was the technical genius of the duo, left our company awhile back and I've needed to trial-by-fire learn a bunch of new things to help with product development, make scaling/environment decisions, and help troubleshoot support requests. I've also realized these skills are important so as not to perpetually annoy my technical employees and contractors with idiotic requests (not to mention wasting money.)
Short of straight up coding, what, technically, do you wish your favorite non-technical cofounder knew how to do to help you function better in your job or let you focus on the most important things. For example:
* deciphering production logs
* proficiency in vi or another editor
* rails console or similar
* reading a postfix or sendmail log
* basic git commands, reading commits
* analytics and testing
* enough HTML/CSS/JS to make content edits on a corporate homepage
* decipher server/application alerts to understand what's a real issue, what isn't
Short of straight up coding, what, technically, do you wish your favorite non-technical cofounder knew how to do to help you function better in your job or let you focus on the most important things. For example:
* deciphering production logs
* proficiency in vi or another editor
* rails console or similar
* reading a postfix or sendmail log
* basic git commands, reading commits
* analytics and testing
* enough HTML/CSS/JS to make content edits on a corporate homepage
* decipher server/application alerts to understand what's a real issue, what isn't