There are two schools of thought on how promotions should work. They can be summarized as prescriptive and descriptive: * Prescriptive promotions are given to folks that have worked hard and deserve recognition. They come with...
Common advice for people going on vacation is to just don’t do it. Seeing that most workers have a lot of trouble unplugging from work as it is, keeping the email app closed is...
Taking notes on a computer should be the most basic of functionalities: throw up a window that can accept text input, and save the text to a file. Optionally, sync these notes to the cloud,...
It’s been an amazing four years at Square. By the time I write and edit and post this, it will be over a month since I’ve parted ways with the startup. Despite the...
Amidst all the hoopla about iOS9’s content blocking feature and how mobile ad-blocking will ruin journalism forever, I discovered an old article by Marc Andreessen on his optimistic future of news[1]. I was...
Learn from the best. I held a fruitful discussion a couple of weeks ago with a coding school graduate looking for their first software programming job. They were able to get a few offers from...
