Essay

Why it’s hard to think

Innovation requires coming up with new ideas. This is hard.

Manufacturing urgency, credibility and the product

Innovation, interfaces, storage and stories

The history of all innovation in software is the history of data storage and user…

Good innovation compounds

Innovation is really difficult because of all the failure.

On Advice: The ugly parts and learning to ignore people.

Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of…

Just get in the water

2 years ago I decided that I should get good at swimming. At the time I could swim around 100m. And I hated the whole…

Idiots and their data

I have seen some amazing startups, full of PhDs and the best in their niche make the most heroically stupid decisions.

Starting is hard. It’s all about fairy worlds.

We have an innate and inexplicable fear of the blank page which makes no sense whatsoever.

Good Interviewers, Bad Interviewers

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I try out a lot of podcasts. Not all are created equal and the interview technique is a cornerstone of their success or, as in most cases, their disappointing failure.