Notes

Jan '21 Why practice makes perfect

Jan '21 Laying bricks, building castles: sketches aren't perfect

Dec '20 Hills beyond the horizon

Dec '20 Looking back at my writing in 2020

Dec '20 Jobs to find the unknown unknowns

Dec '20 What does art do?

Dec '20 evermore, and other beautiful things

Nov '20 How do you get so much done?

Nov '20 Three kinds of computing

Nov '20 How to get lots of ideas for side projects and writing

Nov '20 Growth as a writer

Nov '20 Immortality is inevitable

Nov '20 Understanding is ideas integrated over time

Nov '20 Guiding ideas for gap years

Oct '20 On opaque titles

Oct '20 What do we need to know to start making a difference?

Oct '20 Scannability is king

Oct '20 When is no-code useful?

Sep '20 What makes Twitter different, and other thoughts on identity

Aug '20 Space-time duals between functional and object-oriented programming

Aug '20 Investing in experiences: the calculus of gap years

Jul '20 Does hacker culture export American values?

Jul '20 I work in long bursts

Jun '20 Public library, redux

Jun '20 Are there indescribable things?

Jun '20 Business model transparency as a feature

Jun '20 Cultural imperialism via product design

Jun '20 The rise of shortform media

May '20 Gap years v. Pandemic

May '20 The lifecycle of an idea

May '20 Abstractions: writing and coding

Apr '20 Software-enabled community infrastructure

Apr '20 Curation

Apr '20 Community

Apr '20 How we measure time