Weight loss and habit forming

Today marks one year that I’ve been within five pounds of my target weight of 175 pounds. Based on some…

A Product Manager’s Farewell

Originally written December 17, 2010

Update (May 2020): I wanted to revisit this post since it’s been almost ten years since I wrote it and six years since I posted it on Medium. Some of the content holds up pretty well and other…

Oneshot

Assumptions

Despite building all kinds of “share” buttons into both apps and sites, people prefer to share by screenshot.

This is true for both private sharing where the screenshot is sent over text. As well as public sharing.

Three Things about Debate

Some tips about debate and the applicability of same to product design.

Although my degree is in astronomy, my major was really college debate. Debate was easily the most valuable thing I learned at school. It…

Status Blog

The status blog is one of those unsexy, boring pieces of startup infrastructure that you need to have but no one really wants to do. Your…

Enable Float Alignment

I originally published this on February 20, 2007 on the Obvious (1.0) blog.

So, you’ve got a feature idea for your personal content product that’s going to make everything better for everyone. As a for instance…

Pathological

On Monday, as I was crossing Fifth Avenue, I had to stop myself from tweeting: “The Empire State Building is the most beautiful…