Review: Die with Zero
The title gives away the ending— Die with Zero is a book about maximizing your financial resources, such that there ought to be nary a cent left by the time you move to the farm...
COVID, A Year Later
As I'm writing this, it's been a year to the week that America shut down from the pandemic. The combination of restricting European travel, celebrities announcing their COVID susceptibility, and the...
Balancing Ambition
I saw this post a while back, from an ambitious engineer reflecting on their career thus far and the allocation of time spent in advancing that career versus opting for the comfortable and familiar: How...
The Smart Home Sweet Spot
A couple years back, I was checking out the initial hardware products from a nascent startup called Wyze. Compared to other smart home manufacturers, Wyze’s unique business model is to sell reasonably sturdy hardware...
User Experience as a Tool
Is there a moral dimension in designing user experiences? I came across this article by a software creative consultant, someone who has seen their discipline of user interface and experience design stand up as a...
The Asymmetry of Creation
It takes me, on average, about an hour to write a minute’s worth of blog prose. That is, as most posts here take only 3–4 minutes to read, they correspondingly take about 3–...