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Review: Extremely Hardcore
Twitter—as a company, as a business, as a social network—has always taken on outsized importance relative to its stature. Perhaps it's because it's the social network of journalists, but it has more books written…
Productive Computing
I've been using the Vision Pro now for almost 3 months. It's a neat machine, crammed with technology and party tricks pulled from the future. Yet, after the initial hype, its software and hardware limitations have…
Review: Executive Engineering
A quick disclaimer: Jack Danger, the author of Executive Engineering , is a friend and former colleague. We worked together as fellow engineers and engineering managers at Square, and our paths have crossed serendipitously in subsequent years as we travel in…
Smart Home Babel
When we were preparing to move into our current home, I took advantage of the renovations we were undertaking to lean into the smart home revolution, to build out a network of interconnected components that can be centrally controlled and…
Comparing Like Things
While on vacation, I was sitting in a hotel lounge, with some sports show in the background playing on mute. From the overly animated expressions and the screens of stats and the chron banner though, it was pretty easy to…
Upwards Status Updates
An inevitability when conducting 1:1s is providing status updates. It's a safe default; if there isn't a set agenda or a set of immediate problems to solve, and neither party is up for diving deep…
