in|retrospect
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Predicting Preferences
Friday night. I had a cup of tea on the desk, flipped open the iPad, and was gearing to spend the 2–3 hours it takes me to author another post on this blog to be posted the following Monday[…
New Gaming Consoles, Like the Old Gaming Consoles
Against all odds, I grabbed a new PlayStation 5 during one of those "in-stock for 30 seconds before we sell out" online mad rushes. It's pretty surreal that, after 6 months of a new console launch,…
Review: Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors is worth, as of this writing, $650 billion. It had this unprecedented run up in market cap and stock price in the past 18 months, for reasons that are still not entirely clear, to now reach a market…
The Management High Road
Oooof. Tech Twitter lit up last week on the drama surrounding Basecamp and their announcement of new company policies, centering around a ban on societal and political discussions on official company forums. For those unfamiliar, Basecamp—the company—makes the…
A Decade of Blogging
A decade ago, as I was sitting at my desk at Google, waiting for blaze[1]to run its suite of testing and compilation tools on my relatively minor commit, I wasn't exactly feeling the excitement of having…
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
As it usually happens, what my friend @jackdanger tweets out quickly turns into food for thought, and eventually blog fodder: I’ve noticed that as companies get bigger, small-company managerial norms → big-company exec exceptionalism. Sometimes bigco execs have other things…
