Paul Buchheit

It's often said that you should live every day as though it's your last. That always seemed a little impractical to me. But when my brothe...

The car in front of me kept hesitating. The driver couldn't seem to decide where to turn. Up ahead I could see that the light was green, but...

On a scale of one to ten, how good of a cog are you? How well do you function in your assigned role? How much of a man or woman are you? How...

Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...

Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality"). In most complex ...

Some people can sell their ideas with a brilliant speech or a slick powerpoint presentation. I can't. Maybe that's why I'm skeptical of idea...

Our lives are full of decisions that force us to balance risk and opportunity: should you take that new job, buy that house, invest in that ...

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "l...

Whenever there is a discussion about joining a startup vs working at regular job, someone will defend the boring 9-5 job by saying, "there i...

In my head, this post and yesterday's post on risk and opportunity are deeply connected, but logically they needed to be split apart. The...

On "Coding Horror", Jeff Atwood asked this question : Let's say, hypothetically speaking, you met someone who told you they had two childre...