The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.

Words and language play an incredibly important role in our culture. Some examples I like:

1. Remote servers vs. The cloud. Remote servers are a bunch of physical servers stored in a data center somewhere in the world. “The cloud” sounds like a magic place with unlimited storage.

2. The entire technology industry uses the word “user” to describe... See more

Want to make the world a better place? Tell someone you believe in them.

Technology treats the process of consuming and the process of creating as distinctly different, when the reality is that for our brains, the process of absorbing a book is not all too different from the process of producing one. We are always seeking new connections, combining and recombining old ideas to produce new ones. So why is it that we... See more

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.

The classic “ideas are worthless, execution is everything” adage is flawed.

Six+ months into an intense software build, I can attest that the little execution details make all the difference. But the constraint on executing well is not operational. It’s more often about having good ideas about how to resolve challenges.

In other words, good execution... See more

The coolest things do not yet exist. You are not late.

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.

The more my career takes me in the direction of creative projects that require alone time, the more I realize being productive has very little to do with high-stakes meetings, rushing from point A to point B, or can’t catch a breath to-do lists that I will probably half-ass due to exhaustion.

Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.

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