Naïvely Confident
All code is tech debt. So goes the saying goes. I mean, sure, it's a glib way of making a point to avoid not-invented-here and adding code for its own sake, but upon...
Review: The Innovation Stack
For the past couple of years, I've been narcassistically keeping an eye out for a tell-all book about Square. Of the cohort of startups founded in the late 2000s to early 2010s, we...
Free is Magic
So, after waxing poetically about CDs and DVDs from 2 decades ago and ripping a couple of select anime series[1] and movies, I turned around and threw away the disks. As opposed to searching...
Screw that Guy
There is, supposedly, an evolutionary advantage to tribalism. The phenomenon where we readily identify with members of an in-group, while at the same time shun others who aren't as an exclusionary out-group, was...
Disk Media Nostalgia
It turns out that moving to a new place is a good catalyst to Marie Kondo the house, and it's particularly therapeutic—though proportionally time-consuming—to work through piles of stuff accumulated over...
Career Advancement in Large Teams
I had a chance to chat with someone who recently joined one of the major tech companies[1] as an engineering manager. Upon settling into their team, they were disappointed to learn that the actual...