My new favorite podcast is Exponent, a podcast hosted by business analyst types Ben Thompson and James Allworth. They tend to talk a lot about the tech industry and its movements, but often provide subtle …
Hiring for Potential vs. Experience
I’m a people optimist. When it comes to building and managing a team, this optimism manifests itself in trusting people on the team to do ultimately do the right thing. It may take them a …
Review: The Wandering Earth
Given that I wanted more epic short stories after going through Invisible Planets, Liu Cixin’s The Wandering Earth—his collection of classic science fiction short stories—seemed like a good bet on delivering grand scale in short(ish) …
I Built my own Financial Planning Spreadsheet
I’m a personal finance geek. Starting with Mint and their budgeting tools and having moved on to Personal Capital for their investment tracking, I appreciate understanding where my money is coming and going, both in terms of “fixed” inputs …
A Bifurcation in Photography
Parenting catalyzes photography. I had dabbled with point-and-shoot cameras in the past, but those devices offered little once smartphone cameras took good enough pictures for most. When the kids came along, the cliche that the …
Review: Chaos Monkeys
I picked up Chaos Monkeys curious about how it would portray the same Silicon Valley that I’ve been a part of for over a dozen years. In particular, one of the characters in the narrative—Gokul …
A Counsyl Retrospective
It started when I was thinking about how technology has failed. Or, to be more accurate, where it has failed. Post-Square, I had approached my job hunt slightly differently than in years past. Opportunity and …
A Future of Mesh Routers
Of all the new computing hardware that was announced in 2016, I was most excited to get my hands on two upgrades: the new MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, and Google’s take on a …
Knocking Off the Apple Design Pedestal
It starts, as usual, by having to correct someone being wrong on the internet: Ignores fact that Google search is one of the best products of all time. Iteration is not design Innovator https://t.co/ZRALVXHFWT — …
Citibank’s Terrible, Customer-Hostile Security Measures
This is going to be a rant about how horrible Citibank’s customer experience is, particularly around their security measures that’s meant to protect their users. I’m still in disbelief on how misguided their systems are. …
Reflecting on Final Fantasy XV
View PostHow Lightweight is a Lightweight Process?
A couple weeks back, as I was reading another big-mailing-list email about how we’re instituting a new set of processes to meet a set of implied standards, I saw that the author reassuringly stated that …