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posted: December 29, 2018
tl;dr: I was in a dotcom-like startup ten years before the dotcom boom...
posted: December 22, 2018
tl;dr: The beer game helped me realize that the late-1990s dotcom/Internet/telecom bubble was going to burst...
posted: December 15, 2018
tl;dr: Since Visa’s Chief Information Security Officer isn’t doing his job I’ll do it for him...
posted: December 8, 2018
tl;dr: AWS is the new Windows and MacOS, and AWS re:Invent is the new Microsoft PDC and Apple WWDC...
posted: November 29, 2018
tl;dr: Be kind to your future self and others by writing some comments...
posted: November 24, 2018
tl;dr: Selling consumer customer premise equipment to service providers is as brutal a market as any I’ve experienced...
posted: November 17, 2018
tl;dr: Major shifts in U.S. tech business models have made downtown locations more attractive...
posted: November 10, 2018
tl;dr: Tips on how to use Python to write better devops scripts...
posted: November 1, 2018
tl;dr: Adding a few features in exchange for a few dollars a month...
posted: October 27, 2018
tl;dr: Done, I think, with cable and satellite TV: the streaming video future is here...
posted: October 20, 2018
tl;dr: The most important part of the business day on my trips to China was dinner...
posted: October 14, 2018
tl;dr: Team harmony trumps purely rational, technical decision making...
posted: October 6, 2018
tl;dr: What happened in the bar stayed in the bar...
posted: September 26, 2018
tl;dr: Idempotence can be the difference between software that might work once and software that works all the time...
posted: September 18, 2018
tl;dr: B2C takes money, and most product ideas have a finite lifetime...
posted: September 15, 2018
tl;dr: Offloading infrastructure onto experts, with scale, is liberating times three...
posted: September 8, 2018
tl;dr: Where to sit at a ballpark...
posted: August 26, 2018
tl;dr: You need big $$$ to pursue a small claims court case in Illinois...
posted: August 25, 2018
tl;dr: I’m very happy to see all this old stuff become somebody else’s (problem)...
posted: August 12, 2018
tl;dr: Timing is everything: decades before LEDs went viral Xciton was developing and selling high performance ones...
posted: August 12, 2018
tl;dr: Chase Field was the first hot weather MLB stadium to get it right, and the Diamondbacks wouldn’t exist without it...
posted: August 4, 2018
tl;dr: A dynamic type system, with optional static type checking, seems like the best way to go...
posted: July 28, 2018
tl;dr: Finely crafted vision of genetic engineering gone awry...
posted: July 21, 2018
tl;dr: We’re all doomed in the very long run, but we can maintain order for a while 😉...
posted: July 12, 2018
tl;dr: A fairly in-depth explanation of the advances in HTLM5 and CSS3, with decent examples and lots of links to dive deeper...
posted: July 7, 2018
tl;dr: I wasn’t immediately a fan, but I’ve matured in my thinking...
posted: June 30, 2018
tl;dr: A gripping narrative of the pre-1966 civil rights movement through the lens of journalism...
posted: June 23, 2018
tl;dr: A car used to mean freedom - today it means anything but...
posted: June 15, 2018
tl;dr: The old “garbage in, garbage out” maxim has never been more true than in this era of Big Data...
posted: June 9, 2018
tl;dr: Python and graph databases beautifully hide the complexities of pointers while delivering their power and benefits...
posted: June 2, 2018
tl;dr: For me airplanes are a glorious isolation chamber and one of the best ways to escape from distractions...
posted: May 26, 2018
tl;dr: Teaches the tricks employed by those who attempt to shape opinion by appearing to use factual data...
posted: May 19, 2018
tl;dr: The Python community knows how to throw a great conference...
posted: May 10, 2018
tl;dr: A well-written, in-depth, practical guide to using Python’s primary data analysis libraries and tools...
posted: May 6, 2018
tl;dr: HQ and the world look very different when viewed from a remote office...
posted: April 28, 2018
tl;dr: It’s where the (risk capital) money is and money does not like to hop on planes...
posted: April 21, 2018
tl;dr: The definitive Bill Veeck biography, but Veeck’s autobiographical books are even more engaging...
posted: April 14, 2018
tl;dr: A true world-class ski resort that aims to be the absolute best, yet is not my ATF...
posted: April 6, 2018
tl;dr: Insurance companies can lie with impunity, except (hopefully) in a court of law...
posted: March 31, 2018
tl;dr: Readability (by humans) is the most important attribute of good software...
posted: March 24, 2018
tl;dr: Spreadsheets had their day (actually decades) in the sun, but night is falling...
posted: March 17, 2018
tl;dr: It matters more how fast one learns than the knowledge that one has...
posted: March 10, 2018
tl;dr: The unique ID is to a database record as the soul is to a person...
posted: March 1, 2018
tl;dr: Enjoyable overview of the politics, fundraising, and (mostly) science behind the fight against polio...
posted: February 24, 2018
tl;dr: You’ll stump a good percentage of sales candidates by asking them this one question...
posted: February 18, 2018
tl;dr: I’ve never met a salesperson who couldn’t sell something that doesn’t exist...
posted: February 10, 2018
tl;dr: My attempt to bust the myth of the introverted, antisocial programmer...
posted: February 4, 2018
tl;dr: This year’s collection is heavily weighted towards modern-day bodice-ripper stories...
posted: January 25, 2018
tl;dr: Chicago is the best choice in all areas except the one that matters most to Bezos...
posted: January 20, 2018
tl;dr: Being positioned (nearly) in the middle has many advantages...
posted: January 13, 2018
tl;dr: Continues the theme of last year’s volume by focusing on painful life experiences...
posted: January 6, 2018
tl;dr: I wouldn’t believe this story if it hadn’t actually happened to me...