It's easy to derive patterns and conjure connections from the tidbits of news that we consume daily. Whether it's drawing a line between the strategy underlining all of Microsoft's products, to placing all the various aesthetic decisions of iOS7 on one senior VP, to attributing the entire acquisition strategy...
I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I made sure to spend the extra money for the "technology package," which translated...
Now that the crying from Simcity's server issues have mostly died down[1], it gives a bit of space to reflect on what happened. Maxis's always-online design decisions aside, the controversy would not have been as loud or as pronounced if EA had provisioned enough servers to handle the load of...
Being a product of both the Asian/eastern-style of education as well as American/western-style schooling, I'd like to think that I have a broad perspective on education. Sometimes, my wife and I argue about which style of study we'd put our future kids through: a more liberal touch would foster...
Quora announced today that they're starting a new program to effectively recognize top contributors to the site over the past year or two, the latest (but the most explicit) in a number of steps to try to encourage quality in content. Whereas upvotes and credits-driven answers are shaped in some way by a...
Blogs are abandoned all the time. Somewhere between 50% and 99% of blogs are started and then quickly left for dead, after that initial honeymoon period of content and inspiration fades and the hard work of producing something interesting and lasting persists over the months and years. Maybe because it's so easy to...
