Stop and smell the roses, but there were no roses. I still stopped. Over the Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip down to Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. From where I am in the bay area, this is about an 8 hour drive without traffic. From where my…
Every line of code is a bet that it will provide more business value than it will cause maintenance burden and cognitive load on future engineers…
The robots are coming for my job, and I want them to take it…
I've spent the last couple months trying to get more and more comfortable working with Clojure, a functional programming language built for the JVM (and other things, but I'm starting from the basics). It's one of those languages with a nearly cult-like following: Clojure…
I've written before on my experience trying to incorporate a "second brain" into my workflow, and how that didn't work for me. And I really thought I would be able to go the rest of my life not tempted by the thought of these…
I've been thinking quite a bit about personal finances and my investment philosophy recently. Particularly with various technology billionaires featuring in the news, it's been hard for me to reconcile some of the investment "rules" I've followed with the insane growth of…
Everyone hates dealing with email. I feel like that isn't a controversial statement, yet we all use email to manage basically everything in our lives. Buy something? Receipt in your inbox. Scheduling a meeting? At the very least, the calendar invite is coming via email. Do anything at…