Amazing Military Infographics

An appreciation

The Great Works of Software

Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply…

Mostly Summer Rolls

Every night at dinner my wife and I each ask what the other learned that day

1.

NYC in the summers

I felt like writing tonight, so…

It Is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are

Is this you? It might be you. Please let it be you.

Our venture-funded vertical-driven content prosumer phablet…

Notifications & Alerts

I took some steps to simplify my digital life and it is horrifying.

Pattern

This afternoon I was coming back from the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. Near my apartment building I saw two people helping an old lady who…

Correspondence

I have 1,200 emails to answer right now about things I’ve written. They are making me nervous so I’ll write about them.

I try to email everyone back. It’ll take about 100–200 hours spread over the next six months to work through those, with past as source of estimate. I was…

The first thing I do when I wake up and get the children dressed—which, my God. Getting the children dressed. We picked out clothes last night so we can avoid the freakout that comes in the morning, the tears and sobbing over the wrong pants (mostly my daughter). But still, you have to pull them out of their beds. While they are halfway out of the…

What I’ve learned from fatherhood 

From my twins who are now two

Learning