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The Kinesis Advantage360

It took about 10 months, but Drop and Kinesis finally shipped their new Kinesis Advantage360[1] Professional keyboard over late September. Coincidentally, at about the same time, I started messing around with mechanical keyboards and...

Disrupting Twitter

My routine for writing blog posts here has 3 steps: 1. Capturing stray thoughts in a drafts folder in Typora with ideas in the shower or during my commute, 2. Develop those ideas into actual...

The Utility of 360° Feedback

Ah, the 360° feedback process. It's a common practice for HR teams of larger companies to implement, as a way to counteract managerial biases and singular points of view, by involving more perspectives...

The Startup Flywheel

The PayPal Mafia is stuff of legend around Silicon Valley—at least, for the first 2 decades of the 21st century. Counted in this group of early employees are a number of entrepreneurs and investors...

Post-COVID

One of the truisms of pandemics is that they're a function of public health, which means that their duration relies on public perception as much as it does on, say, the actual science...