Why Designers Leave

A designer may decide to leave for many reasons.

Work From Home? Do it Better.

10 tricks to get *quality* work done and still have a life

Mattermark Wasn’t a Pivot

We completely started over, here’s what happened.

My Wife Doesn’t ‘Get How It Is In Advertising.’ 

And Maybe Yours Shouldn’t Either.

Remember the whole Magnolia cupcake thing?

This isn’t an entirely rhetorical question. I have friends and colleagues now who were very…

San Francisco and the Storm of Progress

I live in the building against whose walls a young boy…

Don’t Be Amy From Secret

How “Non Developers” Can Protect Themselves At Startups

I have cancer. And I’ll write about it as much as I fucking want 

What people who blog about cancer…

“Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments”

Paul Graham’s view of how to fix a community, annotated for the discerning reader

Disclaimer: I’ve never used Hacker News. It always struck me as Slashdot without the…

The Best Defense Is No Defense at All

See how I replied to this tweet.

The lies we hear — Part 1 

Everyone is beautiful