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December 31, 2010
A Fire Upon the Deep
Last time I listed books without a review, somebody accused me of wasting their time -- just a list without any reviews? So I reviewed Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", which I just finished reading. I decided to...
December 30, 2010
Do More Faster
As part of my 2-week startup program, I'm also reading a new book on startups every two weeks and posting the review on my test site, hn-books.com I'm only reading what folks think are the best books -- not so...
December 29, 2010
Numerical Nuttery
So the next time somebody comes to you with a chart or a statistical study, put on your skeptics hat. Especially if they're saying something that you're already primed to believe.
December 25, 2010
A Christmas Failure
I write all the time. Most of the time it's like the whisper of leaves in a faraway forest: nobody hears and it doesn't matter. But every now and then, it does.
December 24, 2010
It's the Holidays. Forget startups and tech and read something fun
This year for the holidays I am doing something really strange and odd: I am not working on my startup. Ever since I've started my every 2-weeks-a-new-startup plan, and and started using the stopwatch to force myself to stop working,...
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December 21, 2010
How many Christmas Presents Could you give Away?
I got up this morning blurry-eyed, after five hours sleep. I couldn't sleep: I was almost ready to release an application. An application that would challenge what I knew about people....
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December 19, 2010
The Web App that's not a Web App
So when I get compliments on the speed and flexibility of the site, I have to smile. Yep, it's a pretty fast site. Couldn't get any faster, actually -- because there's nothing but page loads going on.
December 18, 2010
The Web Control HTML 5 Left Out
Having a slider list or a slider array in HTML 5 would have been an awesome acknowledgement that the tyranny of binary thinking is over. But alas, it didn't happen.
December 14, 2010
Things your mommy didn't tell you about growing a tech organization
Here's the stand-up demo that was supposed to be in the presentation but somehow got deleted....
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December 7, 2010
Wikileaks Morals: The Cliffs Notes Version
If there's anything I've learned from working with tech teams, it's that lots of technical people are willing to challenge their assertions if you just treat each other like adults. This essay is dedicated to those people.
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December 6, 2010
Wikijerks
I hate the secrecy we live in so much that I can only think of a few items that have to be secret in order for the government to function. And Wikileaks is going after just those things. That makes them my enemy. And jerks.
December 5, 2010
The Non-Story Story
It's amazing the amount of non-stories that get passed off for news any more.