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Packing up the household for a recent move, I was delving into shoeboxes, photo albums, and file folders that had not been opened in decades. One of my discoveries, found in an envelope at the back of a file drawer, was the paper sleeve from a drinking straw, imprinted with a saccharine message:
Three major tools that companies have to influence behavior are incentives, process, and culture. People often mean different things when talking about these, so I'll provide an example of each so we're on the same page (if you think that I should be using a different word for the concept, feel free to mentally…
Depression is real in founders. Please be careful.
David shares how discipline can lead to unhappiness and stifle learning for both children and adults. Read now.
I have decided to switch away from the Hey.com email service by Basecamp. I started using it because I wanted a good independent provider that was not from Google, and I’ve been trying out se…
Monospaced fonts are no longer just utilitarian tools—they can also be playful & fun
In the 1980s and 1990s a common piece of advice for people working in the professional managerial class was to ‘dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.’ Throughout these decades, folks dressed aspirationally—a culture of power suits and padded shoulders.
It's the best reply to questions you wish you weren't asked.
You thought your family was going to be talking about web3 this Thanksgiving. But they’re actually talking about ebikes. Let’s help you prepare. Ebikes are about to change the world. They are already the best selling electric vehicles, and are selling as fast as factories can make them.
Over 15 years ago, I took my first device-free, silent, solitude experience.
Even if you've checked your work, asked for all the help, and are moving gingerly, there will be decisions where you can't decide. You've considered and reconsi
Often, doing a little is better than doing a lot.
To realize your potential you have to focus on the things that matter. You have to say no to good opportunities so you can pursue great ones.
I used to be a pathological overthinker. Everything had to be carefully planned, from the words I would say to the baker to order a baguette to all the insignificant details of any of the projects I worked on. Is it better to tweet at 18:00 or 18:05? Rust or
What the creators of Processing — now 20 years old — did right
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Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty.
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
Before mic’ing became a necessity, acoustic drums were just that: acoustic. And when they needed to be louder, drum manufacturers made them bigger and longer. That led to some diameter and de…
I don't want to consume the life of others. I want to create a life worth consuming. That's what I've learned after 3 years without social media.
One of my favorite questions to ask people is: what are some things that you used to strongly believe but have now changed your mind about?
Two years ago, I did something that I’d never done in my career before- I left a job (at Nuro) only a few months after starting it. In this post, I want to explain what happened and what I learned from the experience.
Type checking is the process of taking a given program in some programming language and working out whether all variables and expressions have the correct types, i.e. strings are assigned to strings, arithmetic expressions involve only numbers, etc. Some languages also offer type inference , tasking the compiler with…
