Learning software development (and continuing one’s learning) is a fundamental skill in today’s world.
I hoped to share a list of books for understanding and growing in software development. I have shared parts of this list with team members who join my team or who I mentor.
I grouped these books by area of growth, as opposed to specific language or facet of software development. There’s a continuium of experience and facets of software engineering touched by each book (e.g. Javascript: The Good Parts is in the “Everyone” section. …
I recently joined a 10 day meditation workshop after procrastinating for years, despite “knowing” of meditation’s benefits. Every one’s path to meditation is different. This article is my [meanering] story to deepen my practice and how I came to join a workshop.
I am sharing my story so that others can potentially enjoy the same benefit of mindfulness by practicing meditation. I had wanted to join for roughly 8 years before successfully signing up for a workshop. From the short time I have practiced post-workshop, I have noticed differences in myself.
Haley and I have been using Slack as a primary way to communicate in the past 6 months, and its been an authenticity-and-delight creating relationship hack.
Before Slack, my girlfriend and I used a combination of iMessage / SMS and email. We found we didn’t know where some detail was kept and did not have a good way to search on multiple platforms. While we both had WhatsApp, WeChat, Instagram, and Facebook messengers, they were somewhat overloaded with other messages.
3 Frequently (Un) Answered Questions
We are two New Yorkers with different work / social groups. These groups…
This piece of internet real estate is reserved thoughts that generate ideas, conversations, and projects. I'll be writing to find and explore my interests with a community of people.
I build stuff as part of my everyday life. I jot some of what I build in workflows, scripts, research notebooks, evernote, simplenote, sketch notebooks, note cards. Some of these things become permanent parts of what I do, some of it gets shared among friends, and most of it never gets shown to the world.
Because it's much easier to start a project than to finish a project, I am writing…
I help people make better decisions by designing technologies that connect people to what they want to do