The Worst Thing You Can Call A White Guy

Louis C.K. is one of the smartest comedians of today, and one popular segment of his…

The Billion Dollar Startup Disruption

Platform Economics: How Internet Startups Disrupt Traditional…

The Future of Word Processing

The Victory of the Web Paradigm

Five reasons why writing is so much like software development

And three more why it might be even more…

The Argument Isn’t Skeuomorphic vs. Flat

You’re beating the wrong dead horse.

If you see a post on Designer News about skeuomorphic design, flat design, or any comparison of the two, you’ll now see a “Beating Dead Horse” icon next to it. The topic is…

Lessons Learned from Amy Winehouse and Irwin Federman

The Mutant Software Design Engineer 

How to Be a 21st Century Developer

Wear your shoes at home.

Habits that made me productive when working from home.

(Future: Web Page Designer?)

Why I was afraid to take the Internet seriously as a kid and how that can…

Consumerization of technology and the developer

How developers are starting to become more like…

Medium: Writing Outside Of The Void

Medium understands that writing is for people, not for robots.

Leave Her Alone

Let her build

A lot of people ask my opinion of the conversation happening around “women…

Is criticism our only role?

Today my friend and I had an argument I suppose like most friends do. Normally I would just shut up and let…

The New Health Exchange

Value Exchange, Improving health, Opportunities in healthcare, boring topic.

La polarización es una trampa

Política en Venezuela

The issue with economic development (for the UK and the world)

Politics Of Super-beings

Being mortal, killable, injurable, trappable and otherwise vulnerable matters. Also caring.

Imagine if everyone were an immortal, unkillable, uninjurable, untrappable creature, similar in those…

Remember Hype Machine?

And where does Medium fit?

A blog is a collection of posts about a particular topic. There’s tons of topics in this world to read and write about but my personal interests lie in travel hacking, paleo cooking, financial markets, house music and…

Facebook Freemium. It Should Be A Thing.

Facebook. So cluttered right now.

Volunteering to get ahead

I remember interviewing for a job several years ago, and one of the interviewers scoffed that I had listed a…

Starting with Hello

Learning to start cold conversations.

Why Medium Matters

In a world filled with pictures and movies - and getting more so every day - words…

Comfortable is dangerous

This blog post is inspired by Dan Benjamin’s Quit! podcast.

I have been working more or less on a full time basis since 2004. I stayed at my first job for 5 years. It was 4 years longer than it was good for me but I was too comfortable there.

Just Maybe.

If we agree on religion being the source of beliefs, then we have two kinds of people: those who use this source of belief for good, and…

What Motivates Builders

I remember the time when one of my best friends shared the joy of his first piece of code being shipped - “Sandy! Can…

Everyone Has a Voice (Unfortunately) 

I tried for the past two days to find an article that I read on Medium. It was titled something along the lines of ‘I Like(d) Medium’ and was a ‘Most Recommended Today’ for a brief time.

The Higher Calling of Experts

The knowledge you have is powerful. Use it well.

Is the Future in your Eyes?

Google Glass is one of this year’s most expected gadget. Is this just hype…

The problem with passwords

is the average user don’t care

2013 Commencement Speeches That Will Inspire Just About Anyone

Every year, dozens of guest speakers regale new graduates with personal stories of fame, fortune, and adversity, providing inspiration as they set out on their new journeys. But when a commencement speech really hits its…