Recently I learned about mimetic desire, originated by Rene Girard , but perhaps popularized in tech by Peter Thiel who saw him as his philosophical mentor. The TL;DR of mimetic desire is that…

I was watching YouTube and I ran into this remarkable interview: Ruby is incredible. It's clear that she is just a force of nature. She exudes life at the age of 87, and as 'limber as a dishrag', she…

TL;DR - You should download my simple little app that I have poured an insane amount of effort into making. Please only tell me that you love it, but also report bugs! About two years ago I started…

Be curious, not judgmental - Walt Whitman The other day I listened to a podcast between Ezra Klein and Judson Brewer talking about anxiety. If you have even mild bouts of anxiety, I highly recommend…

When building products, there are two things that seem extremely important: scope and speed to feedback. If you can ruthlessly prioritize, you can focus. If you can tighten your feedback loops, you…

One of the things that got design a seat at the table was data-driven decision making that could be defended. I don't have any evidence to support this, but I really think that design's difficulty in…

After building multiple applications used by thousands of paying customers I feel like I've converged on a philosophy of design that could be summed up as 'Design for Repetition'. Is your app used a…

When I was younger I had multiple websites where I posted often. I didn't care what I wrote because I was just writing for my friends. Doing this improved my writing dramatically. It forced me to…