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Review: The Fund

I read Ray Dalio's Principles back in 2018. Without much knowledge beforehand of Bridgewater Associates or its emblematic founder, I found the book to be a reasonable autobiography paired with some scattershot advice....

A Year with the Dygma Defy Keyboard

This post is a follow-up to the first impressions post I wrote about 9 months ago—rounded up to a year—on receiving the Dygma Defy, a high-end split ergonomic gaming keyboard. As a first-generation...

A Kiddom Retrospective

When I left my role at Mystery Science in the summer of 2021, I was left…a bit wanting. I expressly wanted to explore the EdTech space as my kids came of schooling age, but...

Generated

Despite my optimism for Generative AI and its floor-raising use cases, we might have already peaked in AI hype. As much as Wall Street analysts and venture capital firms seem detached from regular people, they&...

Review: Keep Calm and Code On

Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software professionally, not so much the technical aspects but lessons learned through experience. The subtitle is "A tactical guide...

Reservations Everywhere

Our family took a vacation this summer in Japan. The island nation has always been a popular tourist destination, but the recent weakness in the yen has made it even more popular and therefore crowded...