2022-03-26
Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas
We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model.
2022-03-05
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
Even Facebook and Slack did not grow "exponentially," as frequently described. Here is the correct model that you can use to understand and affect growth.
2022-02-26
Who's lying?
A lesson all pilots know: How you must use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because some of it is always lying.
2022-02-20
How to Order Fast Food while Inflicting as Little Damage to Yourself as Possible
Let’s get this out of the way first: I am not a dietician, an economist, or an ethicist. I am, however, a guy who likes to occasionally eat at fast...
2022-01-27
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making...
2021-11-26
Restoring Vintage Fiberglass Eames Chairs
We recently decided to upgrade our second-hand, fake Eames chairs with originals. We got the fake ones for free off of a neighborhood Buy Nothing group, and while they served...
2021-11-09
I’m Joining Kraken! 🐙
One of my favorite things about the design industry is that you can have a dozen completely different careers without ever leaving the field. For me, I started in print,...
2021-09-06
What kind of work I want
This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of places I’d like to work. The short version…
2021-09-03
Learning incident response with problem sets
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
2021-06-02
Kinda a big announcement
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda...
2021-04-20
Keep incidents boring
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
Blockchain explained simply
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
2021-04-11
Success and Failure at Pebble
I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never…
2021-01-20
Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
While working on Pebble, we ran into a lot of issues as we tried to enable messaging from the watch. For example, we never figured out how…
2021-01-01
Acing the design interview
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
2020-12-29
Here Lies Flash
In just a few short days, on December 31, 2020, we will say our final goodbyes to one of the most important internet technologies that ever lived: Flash. I remember...
2020-12-25
Writing good technical explanations
Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and many thousands of books, talks and blog…
Acing the coding challenge
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
2020-09-11
Avoiding worry driven development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
2020-08-25
On my way to the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s estate and the old airfield. [Werneuchen Loop]
On my way to the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s estate and old airfield. [Werneuchen Loop]I’m looking for a way to go back to writing. It took me years to figure out what I’m...
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