Book Reviews
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 role were still the most…
Reflecting on Final Fantasy XV
I’ve been playing Final Fantasy games, by my count, for the past 24 years. It’s the premiere Japanese RPG series, one that guarantees high production values and solid gameplay, spectacles equivalent of long-running summer blockbuster sequels[1]. Starting…
An Era Hostile to Innovation
140 characters instead of flying cars. Peter Thiel quipped this back in 2011, succinctly and pointedly describing the state of technological progress in the 21st century. It’s damning our modern tendencies to seek incremental improvements over grandiose new ideas,…
You Don’t Deserve a House in the Bay Area
Time to check-in on the Bay Area housing crisis in 2016. ... Yep, still as bad as ever. The latest controversy is that, contrary to silly ideas back in 2015 that two working professionals could afford to own a home in…
The Folly of Stack Ranking and Measuring Impact
Recently I came across a brief statement on Facebook about the well-explained evils of stack ranking, with a half-hearted Devil’s Advocate argument about how impact can absolutely be an objective metric, measured and ranked[1]. I still think this…
Effective Communication Requires Traffic Engineering
Solving communication with clever tooling is akin to buying into a get-rich-quick scheme. I’d like to think most of us recognize that good communication in itself is hard , but I do think a lot of us want to believe…
