Product Design

A friend just posted this oldie-but-goodie article: Why Can’t Programmers.. Program? In it, Jeff Atwood discusses using FizzBuzz as a programming test for developer applicants. He suggested that I could probably crank out some interesting variations on this theme. So I broke out…

In the 5/24/2015 Sunday New York Times, Maureen Dowd laments her Uber passenger rating of 4.2, which is apparently low enough to make it difficult for her to get a car sometimes. This makes it clear that Uber’s 1-through-5 star system doesn’t really have…

I watched the Steven Spielberg film Bridge of Spies a few days ago. It’s a thrilling story and a fascinating historical drama — but I was really disappointed in the product design of the U2 self-destruct mechanism.

The Way It Was