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The Startup Flywheel
The PayPal Mafia is stuff of legend around Silicon Valley—at least, for the first 2 decades of the 21st century. Counted in this group of early employees are a number of entrepreneurs and investors for some major companies during…
Post-COVID
One of the truisms of pandemics is that they're a function of public health, which means that their duration relies on public perception as much as it does on, say, the actual science of the virus. Hell, our…
Building a Mechanical Keyboard
I've geeked out on keyboards here, specifically the Kinesis Advantage line of ergonomic keyboards; I've also geeked out mechanical watches. So it's inevitable, preordained even, that I'll geek out on mechanical keyboards…
Cloud Gaming as a Feature
So last week, pretty much to no one's surprise, Google announced that they'll be shutting down their gaming streaming service Stadia by January next year. Even at launch, aside from the rocky launch of the service…
Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
If there's a category of literature that's invites more skepticism than self-help books, it may be self-help parenting books. The genre combines the pseudo-science of pop psychology and copious amounts of anecdotal evidence, with the added…
Myth-making in Video Games
I've been putting in a good chunk of hours into my PS5 recently making my way through one of the best games of the year, Horizon: Forbidden West. It's a worthy successor to 2017's…
