I think people need to think more about how they learn. Too many treat the gathering…
Concise, Transparent Communication as the Primary Metric of Competency
Two of his biggest ideas were about how space and time work. This thing you’re…
Learning is an Integration Problem
Gunnar Peterson is one of my favorite infosec thinkers. He’s extremely clear-minded…
Powering Innovation With Inputs
In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn’t sure what to do next, I would…
Jack of All Trades, Master of Some
In the modern world, where a very common job might require someone to be a social-media…
How Science Will Help us Optimize Everything Through AI Curation
The interviewers detected lies less accurately among those with a full bladder.…
Ready Player One
I’m about halfway finished with an extraordinary book called Ready Player…
A New Approach to Television
Television is a word that we might stop using soon. What does it mean anymore?…
Project vs. Company
The best companies start out with ideas that don’t sound very good. They start…
Do You Have to Re-read to Retain Books?
“When we read a book for the first time,” Nabokov complains, “the very process…
Stop Being Proud of Complexity
The main virtue of an architect is the ability to reduce complexity. Thus, a good…
Possible Outcomes for Jon Snow After Book/Season 5 [SPOILERS]
The final scene in book and season 5 of Game of Thrones has a lot of people thinking…
Give Talks on More Than Just Your Job
I’ve come to see public speaking as a vital part of a thriving life, but…
My Favorite Book on Writing
I have a project where I parse the books I read and then summarize them for myself…
I’m Hiring a Part-time Researcher
I am hiring a part-time researcher to work on a project for me. The project is…
Better Superlatives
The thing I dislike most about Apple is their overuse of the word, “amazing”.…
Auto-Optimizing Images Using Folder Actions
I’ve been trying to keep my images down in size on the site, and there are…
GTD and Offloading
A study was just released that talks about the benefits of storing or saving information…
The Wisdom Genome
December 14th, 2014 I have many projects that I work on captured here on the site.…
The 4 Levels of Photographic Realism
I’ve often been fascinated by good photographic images that could have existed…
Put Your Content on Your Own Website
I just read a decent post by some guy about travel. It was pretty good. It was…
Changing my Approach to Blogging
I think I’m about to change a great deal about how I manage this site’s…
How to Redirect Archives to Pages in WordPress
Changing your permalink structure on WordPress is non-trivial. It can break your…
The Difference Between Organic and Direct Web Traffic
If you host any type of website you’ve probably heard the terms “organic”…
The Difference Between Analogy, Metaphor, and Simile
Many people confuse analogies, similes, and metaphors. Let me help. Analogies…