Essays
2022-12-31
Everything is changing all the time.
2022-01-01
It gets worse, but then it gets better.
Subsistence and Prioritization
2021-10-11
Mistakes we make when prioritizing work
Bruce Springsteen and growing up non-white in the suburbs
2021-04-07
Why listening to Born In the U.S.A. is the perfect parable for my experience growing up non-white in the suburbs.
Finding startup ideas with Zettelkasten
2021-04-04
How I organized my observations and ideas using Zettelkasten to start a company.
2021-01-01
What I learned during the most awful year and why I'm so optimistic for 2021.
Zettelkasten, Emacs, and Creative Thinking
2020-08-17
An in-depth description of a Zettelkasten note taking practice that helps me improve clarity of thinking and creativity.
Self-servicification of internal teams
2020-06-18
Common pitfalls of interal services teams moving to a self-serve model and what to do about it.
2020-06-14
Introspection on improving product problem solving skills
2020-01-01
Lessons and learnings from 2019.
2019-09-12
Everything I've learned about building and running remote engineering teams
2019-07-28
Retrospective of a fun side-project that never really launched
How I learned to code in nine years
2019-05-04
How I learned to code and found myself in the tech over the course of nine years
2019-01-01
Lessons and learnings from 2018.