(Excerpts from Skin in the Game) Sontag is about Sontag — Virtue is precisely what you don’t show

I’ve always found flexbox pretty easy to work with — a breath of fresh air after years of floating and clearfixing.

I still remember it.

Mary Shelley and the Horror of Maternity

I never intended (or really wanted) to have my own business. I was always open to the idea of freelancing, as someone whose father has been…

When mathematics loses its shine, and then recovers it

A basic guide to understanding why most news articles get the science wrong

Part 2: Apps for improving willpower

Bustiers. Slip dresses. The “whale tail.” Oh, and the codpiece.

Losing friends in combat, Trump blaming his generals for service member deaths, and the long-term effects on our veteran’s mental health

Each session of Camp Nick, a “masculinity camp” for boys age 8 to 11 held in a bucolic park in Santa Monica, California, begins with a…

The Colorado Democratic ground game is drunk. It’s the eve of the first debate and our oracle has the E-Day odds at 50/50. A coin toss…

I’m sitting in the park on a blanket sewn by my grandmother. Melanie and Ellie, my wife and daughter are here with me. This is the only…

You might read the discussion about VR and AR will kill smartphones, but they never explain HOW VR and AR will kill it. So, here it is.

A simple framework to understand value and complexity in consumer IOT products

Figuring out the IoT business model of the future

Tokens are early today, but will transform technology tomorrow.

The next great Google product offers a window into a company reshaping itself around images, AI, and even more of your data

Show me a confused man, and I’ll show you an honest one.

When is it OK to fight back over your work?

It always had a reader.

Years ago, I took a class in creative writing at a small community college in the Bay Area. It was a gut course: an easy A since grading…

The importance of consistency and volume in creativity

What is happening; what can be done

How Do I Choose? Won’t I Regret It?

Don’t buy into the myth that is Silicon Valley

HubSpot recently released its annual State of Inbound report. One of the themes that stood out to me was the “out-of-touchness” of c-level…

Trend spotters are usually obsessed with new technologies. They should be obsessed with human nature.

They cannot be defeated.

Ratings are down, live events are up, and IP is more important than ever

Usman Ally is the quintessential Hollywood “everyman” as he blazes through roles that give him the freedom to exhibit the training he…

Bustiers. Slip dresses. The “whale tail.” Oh, and the codpiece.

Allow Me to Explain . . .

Before I begin this near and dear blog post, I first need to praise a woman named Julia Cameron, who introduced me to the world of Flow…

We all have fears — fears that keep us from embracing the lives we want. Indeed, it is that which stands between success and true failure.

I live in London, central London. It’s crowded in here. People everywhere. I see tons of people every day. The barista who poured my black…

Complacency is comfortable. Growth isn’t.

This isn’t a bullshit, head in the clouds, you can do it if you just *believe*post. There’s plenty of those out there. I’m not going to…

In the past few years, reactionary politicians across the world have been seizing power with the backing of fossil fuel interests. One of…

If the Supreme Court rules against gerrymandering this year, these congressional seats may be up for grabs.

Lakhdar Boumediene spent seven years in hell — until the courts intervened.

Yesterday, I logged into Flickr where I noticed that the first lady appears to be holding the hand of President Trump in a series of new…