Recalibrating your senses

Every now and then I find it necessary to recalibrate my senses. Technology has a way of deluding them so that I forget about how things used to feel or work.

My current recalibration is with my handwriting. Twelve years ago, my typing-to-handwriting ratio…

Understanding what really matters in your problem space

Two very similar math problems…

Problem 1:
If a car goes 20 mph down an open road for 1 minute and then 40 mph down the road for another minute…

Being your own boss is about being your own employee

Get out of survival mode by learning on the job

In the early days of We Are Mammoth, we took every project we could get our hands on. Our first project was to create a CD-ROM presentation (somewhat antiquated, even for 2006). We created an animated Abraham Lincoln avatar explaining Cook…

Treat time as an ingredient, not a currency

Software developers can take a lesson from cooking — specifically on how we treat time.

In the software world, the more time we have to do something, the better we usually feel. The less time, the worse. We treat time like a…

Writing Tip: Lose the parentheses

I tend to get parentheses-happy when I write emails. It’s usually because I’m either writing an exception to something I just wrote (though not always), or because I want to give a specific example to something I just wrote (like this one). It’s habitual. I speak those…