Social Icons

The Wearable Decade

For about two decades, the blistering pace of smartphone hardware improvements has driven manufacturing advances. We've made massive engineering improvements in all the components in the latest flagship phones: touch screens, systems-on-a-chip, tiny...

Review: Ask Iwata

Ask Iwata is a fairly unique biography, as far as biographies go. Satoru Iwata was the beloved Global President of Nintendo Corporation Limited. It's a posthumous memoir, but one written based not on...

Beyond Servant Leadership

I've never liked the term "servant leadership." As I eased into my engineering director role, one of my main responsibilities was conducting interviews for a wide breadth of engineering and engineering-adjacent...

A Dent on the Floor

When we moved into our current home, we prioritized replacing the floors with hardwood flooring on the advice of our realtor. It made sense; it's a lot more painful to clear away furniture...

Review: The Ride of a Lifetime

I was recommended a few years back by a colleague to read through The Ride of a Lifetime. It's an autobiographical memoir from the then—and current , unretired—CEO of the Walt Disney...