in|retrospect
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Follow-through
Do what you said you'd do. …that's pretty much it. That is: when you agree to something, it translates into commitment, so honoring that commitment—as minor or inconsequential as it may be—is less common…
Year in Review — 2024
Year in Review posts are some of my favorite posts to write. They're the encapsulation of this blog's namesake: to create the space for retrospection, taking deliberate time to mull over events past to help inform…
Raising Readers in the Digital Age
I still remember my grade school years. Immigrating to North America and enrolled in English-as-Second-Language (ESL) classes in Canada, I felt accomplished to just keep up with reading assignments, not realizing that they were greatly simplified for…
Review: Minesweeper
Before the advent of smartphones, or widespread internet connectivity, the primary role of a PC was for personal and professional productivity. In the Windows 3.1/95 era, my memories of the main "apps"[1] installed on our…
Through the Looking Glass
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of these technologies we keep returning to. The sheer science-fiction ness of wearing a computer on our faces, augmenting what we see around us with information gleaned from a combination of sight and sound…
Founder Mode Rationalization
It's been some months since Paul Graham published his essay on "Founder Mode": the idea that there are times when founders should exercise their authority to orient a company's direction, and, for the lack…
