Many years ago I used to think that programming was easy, as the yearshave passed I have have realized that programming is not easy. This isdue to a slow perceptual shift in what I think programming is and whatit is that a programmer does. At first I thought programming just involved telling a…

The logic of hating cyclists Back when I first started riding bikes when I was 1 or 2 years old, I didn't realize how many crybaby car-blowhards were on the road. A car blowhard is someone who feels e

Have you ever been in a house without a couch? I don’t think I have. I’ve thought about my friends’ houses, my relatives’ houses, and my neighbors’ houses. I’ve thought about all the places in which I

Agile. Innovation. Disruption. If you closed your eyes it'd be easy to think Australian politicianswere nothing more than a bunch of post-adolescent CS-grads pitching to their first VC. If youcan wade

Editor’s Note : This is a guest post from Joshua Millburn of The Minimalists . I do not have a daily routine. I no longer need one. I do, however, have habits on which I focus every day. Don’t get me wrong, I used to have a daily routine — before I quit my six-figure job to pursue my passions and…

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes, 48 seconds This piece has also been cross-posted to Medium . People often tell me that starting a movement for a whole new type of technology that’s built to help people spend their time well sounds nice (and naïvely ambitious), but what are the things I can do to…