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An Affirm Retrospective
No fine print. It was a few months after I started my new job at Affirm, when I noticed this literally plastered on the hallway walls leading to the company kitchens. Out of our set of company's values,…
Review: Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
The original Netflix culture deck[1] is one of the major pieces of modern Silicon Valley lore. It’s a presentation describing the core tenets the culture at Netflix, a set of aggressive norms rebuking what its authors perceive as…
California’s Wildfire Reckoning
The lengthy, yet just beginning wildfire season in California this year is already exhausting. Starting with the random dry lightning strikes sparking a trio of the largest wildfires our state has experienced on record, it has been one crisis after…
In Retrospect
Okay, so I do recognize that talking about how you redesign and update your own blog belongs somewhere on the 3rd level of navel-gazing hell. That said, I do spend a few weeks every couple of years refreshing the paint…
Powerpoint Presentations for Kids
When we all went into lockdown back in March, many parents with school-age children were thinking, "This is just a few weeks of sheltering in place, at worst we've lost the rest of the school year and…
Conformity in User Interfaces
I've been an NBA 2K player for upwards of 2 decades now. As is the case with popular video game sports franchises, the series releases a new game every year right before the season starts[1], with updated…
