Thoughts

Are you playing games you want to win?

As we enter the funny week-without-time between Christmas and New Year, it's a great time to reflect. Here's a framework I like to use.

Shipped code wins

What makes a real image?

What does a real image look like? The rise of modern AI photo editing and generation tools makes this an interesting question.

Why other people's code looks weird

Are you an organizer or a searcher? What about your team?

When it’s okay to work overtime

Not all overtime is bad overtime

What's your code for?

Perfect code that doesn't solve the problem is useless. Perfect metrics that don't serve the user are a distraction.

How to lie with facts

Why you don't have time to advance your career

This kid is amazing

Focus on the process, not the goal

How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business

It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work – a review

Should you work at a startup

Online workshops are MORE interactive than in-person workshops

Lifestyle inflation after 3 years of San Francisco

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

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

What's an intermediate dev anyway?

You have permission to suck

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

Does blogging really drive sales?

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

Coding is bad for you

How our engineering team got 12x faster using these 5 lessons about integrating 3rd-party services

Working IN your career vs. ON your career