Whiteboarding

If you are interviewing for a programming job it is almost inevitable that you will be asked to do some coding on a whiteboard. While…

The Spark File

Looking back at all the tools and techniques that I've developed over the years as a writer, it occurs to me that most of them are, in one way or another, grappling with two critical mental forces: the power (and weakness) of human memory, and the sometimes overwhelming drive to procrastinate.

The only metric that matters

I've been lucky to be part of the early growth of several really interesting and now important networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. One of the things that I felt working on each of these is that we never looked at numbers or metrics in the abstract -- total page…

The Abundance of Slowness

Learning to value smart work over hard work requires a paradigm shift, but…

Mostly Summer Rolls

Every night at dinner my wife and I each ask what the other learned that day

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Formula for Entrepreneurial Success

Five simple truths

What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

As of November 2012

We’re now eight months into building Medium, having started in earnest in February of this year. In August, we launched what I call the “preview” version—which included viewing content publicly and creation for a…

Tenth Grade Tech Trends

A few months ago, my fifteen-year-old sister told me that Snapchat was going to be the next Instagram. Many months…

Budget your time, design your life

We only have a little bit

I once read something like, “You’ll only see a full moon X number of times before you die.” I don’t remember what X is, but it was surprisingly small. And it was true. Or, at least the point was true…