If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a custodian of culture. If you run a meetup or a team, if you lead an open source project, or if you organize an event people will be looking to you to know what is and isn’t okay in that space. You get this responsibility whether…
In response to the surge in prices that began in earnest in the summer of 2021 central banks all around the world are hiking interest rates.
I'm used to getting asked how many employees work at my startup. For most people, it's a quick way to assess a startup's success. Supposedly, the bigger, the better. But does it really reflect success?
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim about vulnerable flights as a result is absurd.
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is…
The similarities between Ivar Kreuger and Sam Bankman Fried.
The more metrics you track, the less you know.
80 Brief Predictions for the Future
This article was prompted by responses to a tweet I wrote in response to an analysis of the research area of papers submitted to the 2022 ICSE conference, the flagship conference for software engineering research. These led me to reflect on software engineering research in general. I’m sorry to say that I think that…
This App Store app [My Metronome - Tempo Keeper] immediately asks you for money and then disables the “Quit” option so that you can never close it!
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
In March 2022, it was reported that the United States was sending over some Switchblades to Ukraine.
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I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app will be well on its way to not sucking .
Why best products and leaders are not heroes; they solve 3 layers of every problem
There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
Headline Blitz: Semiconductor Edition
In my writeup the other day about not getting a new computer (or, more accurately, about ordering one and then cancelling the order because of supply chain issues), I mentioned that in lieu of gett…
It's can't just be an excuse — we need to improve our policies
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
Measuring the extent of self-reviewing at the New York Review of Books from 1963-2022
