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July 2018

What a 3:36 marathon does to your body

How running a side business is a lot like running a marathon

The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code

What Richard Feynman taught me about joy

Hire these interns

The day I drove a Porsche 356 Speedster

June 2018

I tried weed for performance enhancement and here's what I found

What's an intermediate dev anyway?

You have permission to suck

May 2018

Some tricks I learned recording & publishing an educational video every day for 30 days

I tried VR on a plane and I'm a believer

How I prepare for a talk at an 8,000 people conference

What I learned at MicroConf Growth 2018

April 2018

Gratitude is hard – My first week with the Five Minute Journal

Does blogging really drive sales?

What I learned from Sherry Walling's Keeping Your Sh*t Together

March 2018

What I learned from Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Reactathon 2018 was a hoot ❤️

Coding is bad for you

Working IN your career vs. ON your career

February 2018

Why everything must change every five years

The story of my family is the story of survivorship bias's other side

January 2018

Don't say yes when you're happy

November 2017

After a week I must begrudgingly admit VSCode is a better editor than Emacs

Why I won't be switching to VSCode any time soon

October 2017

How resumé-driven development shapes our industry

All that once was new is old again

What I learned from teaching StubHub about React and Redux

September 2017

What it's like to be a statistical super minority in tech

July 2017

From couch to sub 4 hour marathon in 4 short years

Best coding headphones: Bose QuietComfort 35