Problem solving is deceptively hard to do well. For most of us we use our intuition to quickly navigate every day problems with little issue. This is an incredibly good thing. Not every problem calls for deep contemplation and consideration. But some do. When large multi-faceted problems arise, our intuition…

** There be heavy philosophical pondering ahead!** I wrote this a while ago and found it a bit all over the place. But it gets at an idea that I find fascinating. How can we map all human knowledge and then make connections between non-obvious data points. …

Retool is an awesome product and I’ve been using it off and on for a few years. In my most recent project I was using it to prototype an MVP that was intended to be used like a web app with regular users. I considered using something like Bubble…

Motivation In my last project I went around scraping tweets and running some sentiment analysis on them. This in turn got me thinking about what role images play in social media analysis, and specifically memes. Memes are everywhere, and pack a lot of social context and emotional templating into our communications…

Why look? Twitter is a mall food court where you can do some really amazing people watching. Except it’s not just the table over that you can eavesdrop on, it’s every account made public from around the world. This has some powerful implications. Information from various corners are not always siloed into…