It’s time to start taking the wraps off what I’ve been working on! My new company is Lightscale Labs , an environmental testing startup in Portland, and we’re going to provide cutting edge analytical
I’ve long been a fan of Meetup and their uniquely genuine and concrete mission: strengthening human connections in the real world . This means more, far more, than just getting people to click approvi
When you are wondering what to do , when you are stuck, caught between a rock and a hard place, the devil and the deep blue sea... Then write a list for action. Or write fast and create lots of narrat
5 min read · May 4, 2016 -- I am a VC. My wife is a founder. When I walk into our apartment at the end of each day, my role morphs from investor to husband but I also become a motivational coach, soun
(This is a rerun of a post that originally ran on March 30th, 2016) Is it weird to acknowledge that Emperor Palpatine has the most ethically formed army of “bad guys” in Star Wars? It feels weird to s
There’s a lot of nonsense in the everyday world, but I’d like to focus on fourthat affect us: symbols, metaphors, white lies, and omission. They affect us assoftware developers, as tech consultants, a
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At thoughtbot we prefer not to estimate with story points for user stories.Story points are a proxy for time, and if we need to know how many days afeature would take, we just talk in terms of time. S
How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist Published in Thrive Global · 16 min read · May 18, 2016 -- Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. “It’s easier to fool p
Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Decision Making Happiness Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 B ertrand Russell famously said, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so cer
We all know the frustration. You’re invited to collaborate with a new team or group. You’re excited to get going, your mind filling with possibilities, when thwack . You’re hit with a signup form. Not
photo by Michael Prince for Forbes I recently heard about Warren Buffet’s approach to scheduling meetings. I can’t confirm this is true (I’ve never met him), but I hear from a reputable source that he
When I launch an app like Apple Music, I’ve got just a handful of simple questions in mind: What have I already been listening to lately? What have my friends and heroes been listening to lately? What’s everybody else been listening to lately? What’s brand new? What’s something out of the blue you…
This New York Times article gets a lot wrong, and both podcast listeners and podcast producers should be clear on Apple’s actual role in podcasting today and what, exactly, big producers are asking fo
Why we’re trying anyway with Beme 5 min read · May 2, 2016 -- When friends who are not in tech (luckily that’s many of mine) ask what it’s like building a startup like Beme, here’s how I explain it: “
iOS 10 concept. ( Full-res ) I almost can’t believe there was a time when the iPad didn’t have Split View. Or that, for years, I thought Apple would never bring split-screen multitasking to iOS. More
Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University, Chico, Mora-Blanco had majored in art, minored in wom
Operation Trump Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. Photo-Illustration by Bobby Doherty On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald T
Published in Owner’s Manual, Blog by Carta · 2 min read · Mar 12, 2016 -- At Carta we spend a lot of time thinking about how to better educate employees on startup equity. Even new hires at Carta ofte
Published in Mission.org · 6 min read · Mar 25, 2016 -- I’ve spent 20 years in my career building and leading product teams. But I have a contrarian approach when it comes to hiring product managers.
By Chelsea Cristene flickr/ José Manuel Ríos Valiente In February, I wrote a piece on having been raised by a sex-positive mother . It was a topic that had been stirring in the back of my mind for a while, as my mom’s parenting style largely cemented my belief that open communication about sex,…
The new issue of In These Times is a special, extra-length issue devoted entirely to the subject of socialism in America today. This special issue is available now. Order your copy today. In In These
We’ll take it. It’s our ugly baby and we like it. Hey, Your Startup is “Unsexy as Fuck” But It’ll Make a Lot of Money… W e’ve been making the rounds lately with VC’s and it’s been a trip (they say the darndest things) and I wish I had taken more notes because some of it is really quite tweet-worthy…
No Exit , the new book from Gideon Lewis-Kraus, should be required reading for anybody who thinks it might be a good idea to found a startup in Silicon Valley. It shows just how miserable the startup
Published in Maxistentialism Blog · 4 min read · Mar 27, 2016 -- Line for the 2016 Indie Soapbox, via DamienKieken I gave the following talk at IGS 2016, as part of the “Indie Soapbox” panel, where te
As far back as I can remember , I was told I would grow up to be an artist. By age six, my obsessively detailed renderings of Mechagodzilla , et al. were already drawing attention from adults. By the
_I originally wrote the following for my Chainline Newsletter , but I continue to get tweets about this idea, so I'm re-publishing the article here on my blog. This version has been lightly edited._ I
Software often eludes analogy. It’s written in code, compiled into assembly, translated into CPU instructions, run on a kernel, and finally executed on invisibly tiny transistors. Such a complex beast
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I’ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, “Technical debt doesn’t exist.” What I was trying to say was, “I’m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think i
At age eight, I start saving my star money. I strode down to the Third National Bank of Scranton, and with the help of my father, opened my first savings account, bankbook and all. And this, the openi
1 min read · Jan 5, 2016 -- As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming President, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As
Why I don’t want stuff 2016-02-16 About once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me something.They liked something I wrote, and want to send me a gift in return.I’m
Feature flags or config flags aka feature toggles aka flippers are an important part of Devops practices like dark launching (releasing features immediately and incrementally),A/B testing,and branchin
Team Culture Team Culture Would you work at a company where your salary is disclosed? One company's quest to “default to transparency” in all possible cases. 0 Joel Gascoigne’s salary is $118,000 a year and he doesn’t care who knows it. The co-founder of Buffer , a 10-person startup that allows…
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