January 2012

Some people believe that carrying out a large software project is like building a bridge. You look at your past […]

In Silicon Valley many people treat the concept that “ideas are worthless, it’s all about execution” as gospel. This thought

I’ve seen variations of this “insightful thought” all over Twitter in the past 24 hours:     This seems to

This makes sense (barely) if you read the original first. I don’t expect to see this post on Hacker News 🙂

You are in a room full of roulette tables. Someone gives you one chip and tells you to bet it

I like Sarah Lacy’s writing. She’s funny, entertaining, and also a hard worker. Her pieces usually make it clear that

I just finished reading Paul Graham’s latest essay, Schlep Blindness. I could say many things about it, but I’ll get

Can I write an interesting blog post about an espresso maker? Here’s a try. Paul Erdős (and other people) said

Today the Federal Reserve of the US released transcripts of 2006 meetings. The financial press, always avid for filler and

Whenever I see an article that tries to extract patterns from a limited study of successful or failed companies, my