Consumption Begets Creation
I'm closing in on a decade of keeping this blog around. What started out as a self-marketing mechanism on the side has become more of a sketchpad of thoughts and opinions, a playground...
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103 Months of Blogging
Engaging in a little bit of meta-blogging reflection here... It's been 103 months since I've started this blog, on what in retrospect was a valuable creative outlet that counterbalanced a mundane...
The Utility of Writing
Surprise—the guy who's kept a blog for over a decade[1] and spends most of his work hours inside of an email client thinks that writing is important. But while reminiscing about...
Types Rule Everything Around Me
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography. This was written in 2006, likely exaggerating for the effect of good types, well before the advent of Web...
Meta-Blog Thoughts, 2017 Edition
Two years removed from being an employee at Square, I made a trip back to the offices to greet familiar faces and check out the updated decor. One of them offhandedly mentioned that I still...
Returning from a Blogging Hiatus
I’m typing this while glancing at my almost exactly, down-to-the-hour 4-week old daughter, as her older brother sleeps a room down with their mother. In the months leading up to this predicament, I’ve received plenty of commentary on life with two kids. It ranged from “expect to lose 90% of your free time&...