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This post is a short explainer to accompany the sprint updates that I’m posting every 2 weeks.  I have 3 goals for Q3, which I explain below. I work towards achieving these goals in 2-week sprints, because enough can happen in 2 weeks that it pays to reflect on it. At the end of each […]

A weekly compendium of the best articles I read online (plus an update on books in progress).  How to Have Difficult Conversations – Shared far and wide already. Excellent exploration of the difference between thoughtful discussions and, on the other end of the spectrum, social media and cable news, which tend to pretend to be […]

Dropbox is reopening its offices — but they’re not offices anymore – What Dropbox is worried about: If important work only happens in the office, what about all the people working from home? Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents – Are Sam and Frodo gay? Yes. How To Be Successful […]

I bought an ereader late last year and it has completely changed my reading habits. (A Kobo Aura H2O.) Sure. Paper books smell great, and I still read them. However, reading on eInk enables a totally different experience. A better experience? Not on all fronts. Because, let’s be honest: ereaders are horrible, dumb, ugly things. […]

I’m blogging again, I guess! Stopped in 2016, and looking back, it’s clear why. In 2016 my wife gave birth to our first child. I also found a job right around week 7 😉, switching to a new role in a new industry. The learning curve since then has only been getting steeper. It’s 2021. […]

A little Phil Hartman to get you in the mood Following Niels ‘t Hooft’s example, I thought I’d start reviewing my week in public. I already review my week in private, but those thoughts aren’t fit to print, so to say. Reading Here’s my past week in a list of online articles: Gravitational waves were all over […]

Last week we went to see The Big Short (Adam McKay), about a group of outsiders who find a way to profit off what they accurately predict to be the housing bubble of 2007. For a Hollywood production, ‘The Big Short’ tells its story in a strange way. Big names like Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell routinely break the fourth […]

I spent December 2016 writing ‘GLAN party’, my first short story in a long, long time. It’s about a LAN party in the future. The story is in English, and though it’s not entirely done yet (I’m waiting for reactions from some critical readers and I might still edit a bit), you can read ‘GLAN […]

Best thing from the Facebook Instant Articles story, for me, was that I discovered this interview with BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, from re/code. In it, Peretti explains how the company thinks about online publishing and making money. (Which BuzzFeed does: the company was valued at $850 million, based on earnings of around $120 million for […]