You Owe It To Yourself To Move On

Selling off the best hours of the best years of your life is one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make (and remake).

Assuming you aren’t independently wealthy, it’s likely you need to do some sort of work-for-money exchange. Many of us…

What Long Hours Really Mean

In the tech and design sectors there’s a lot of folks working long hours, like 70+ hours a week. There’s a certain badge-of-honor-martyr-complex-thing that comes along with it. But let’s set the record straight. Here’s what long hours really mean:

Culture Matters, Prestige Does Not

Many designers, myself included, have thought, “Oh, that studio does such great work! I would love to work there.” But what does that even mean? It means they have a track-record of doing excellent work, which is great and respectable. But who’s done the great work…

Believing The Best

A pretty simple step you can take toward creating a better workplace — basically by…

Reaching programmer’s nirvana by letting go of perfection

In the last couple of years, I’ve begun the ego-swallowing ascent that all programmers eventually have to take to achieve, what I’ll call, Programmer’s Nirvana.

The Lay of the Digital Design Land

Students and junior designers are struggling with the changing design landscape

Students and junior designers have been on my mind a lot lately. It seems many, if not most, are struggling…

The Founder Forge: A business workshop for founders

How Discussion Happens: Humans, Tech, and Jibber-Jabber

These days conversations take place over days, weeks, or months. They also change their mediums almost as often as they change who’s speaking. And this is all perfectly normal.

The Golden Rule On Creating Rules

The golden rule on creating rules

Rules help when they provide a path toward accomplishing a goal that has been proven through successive iterations.