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Finding The Right Answer

“The challenge becomes, not finding that scarce plant growing in the desert, but finding a specific plant growing in a jungle.” Neil Gaiman I refer to the quote above a...

Removing Google Analytics

Google Analytics has been on this domain since it first launched. What have I actually done with years worth of analytics? Nothing… Over the past few months, this website has...

Action Speaks Louder

“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.” Jason Fried, Rework There are a lot of decisions to be made when running a business....

Building A Better Customer

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don’t build better cameras – build better photographers. Kathy Sierra...

Creative Uses for GitHub

GitHub is an amazingly powerful platform. I was slow to jump in and use it (preferring my local dev environments more), but once I did I can’t imagine going back....

Choose Your Audience Wisely →

Justin Jackson, on his blog When we’re in the idea phase of a new business, we don’t think about the daily grind. How will it feel waking up every morning...

Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple →

John Gruber, writing on Daring Fireball My gut sense for years has been that Ive without Jobs has been like McCartney without Lennon. Or Lennon without McCartney — take whichever...

Open Source Beyond The Market →

David Heinemeier Hansson, at RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote Gates was afraid that users would take his software and not pay him for it. Stallman was afraid that users would...