If you don’t know what you’re doing in life and you just want to know what the point of it all is, then you might really enjoy The Stranger, a novel written by French author and philosopher Albert Camus.
Continue readingIn The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman makes a case for Human Centered Design and describes how designers should think about users and their problems. He breaks down common design mistakes and gives readers a framework for user-centered design.
Continue readingEvery time I do it I get tired, out of breath, and sweaty. No, I don’t just get sweaty — I get really sweaty. Sweat drips into my eyes and they burn. It starts accumulating in not-so-fun places. And I can’t do anything about it, because I still have 4 more miles left to run.
Continue readingRecently I migrated this website over to WordPress.org. This post details the tribulations I faced while doing so.
Continue readingI thought I’d share the rabbit hole my restless, sleep-addled brain took me down on the Internet last night. Like transient dreams, my rabbit-hole escapades are usually quickly forgotten, but today I found myself mulling over a lot of what I had read.
Continue readingI love Twitter because it’s the only place on the Internet I go where I can read the somewhat real-time thoughts of the authors/founders/politicians/etc I admire but who (for obvious reasons) I don’t have regular conversations with. Unfortunately, Twitter’s default user experience sucks.
Continue readingMy fondest memories of San Francisco are the ones I experience on my bicycle as I’m shuttling myself through the sometimes busy, always dirty streets of the city.
Continue readingI quit my first full-time job three weeks ago to start a company. At the time this felt like a really monumental decision but now, looking backwards, it wasn’t really that big of a deal.
Continue readingI just came back from a week in Beijing and wanted to write down some observations while they were still fresh.
Continue readingBroadly speaking, people’s skills fall into two areas: “hard” skills and “soft” skills.
Hard skills can be used by the individual who possesses them to actually produce something, such as a mathematical model predicting snowfall in a certain region or a piece of software to analyze restaurant orders.