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A Pretty Good Blogging App
For the past couple of years, I've been writing my blog posts here with Typora, a Markdown editor that I believe started initially on macOS but has since released versions for Windows and Linux as well. It was…
Educational Equity vs. Exceptionalism
First, some personal news: I've recently started a new job as the VP of Engineering at Kiddom! Upon leaving my previous role at Mystery, I found myself still intrigued by the educational space and how it intersects—or…
Naïvely Confident
All code is tech debt. So goes the saying goes. I mean, sure, it's a glib way of making a point to avoid not-invented-here and adding code for its own sake, but upon close inspection makes no sense…
Review: The Innovation Stack
For the past couple of years, I've been narcassistically keeping an eye out for a tell-all book about Square. Of the cohort of startups founded in the late 2000s to early 2010s, we were certainly one of the…
Free is Magic
So, after waxing poetically about CDs and DVDs from 2 decades ago and ripping a couple of select anime series[1] and movies, I turned around and threw away the disks. As opposed to searching for sparks of joy as…
Screw that Guy
There is, supposedly, an evolutionary advantage to tribalism. The phenomenon where we readily identify with members of an in-group, while at the same time shun others who aren't as an exclusionary out-group, was critical to creating and maintaining…
