I recently discovered a website called “Will You Press the Button?” where visitors are presented with a big red button. When pressed, a positive outcome – written by another user – would happen, accompanied by…
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A letter to my future self
Dear Friend, I hope things are better in the future than they are right now. I hope that you’re able to look back at this point in time, laugh about how crazy everything was, and…
kopi.click
When we were both 16, my best friend had an early smartphone – one of the first that made use of a stylus. One day, as a group of us were hanging out, he reached…
My top 5 books of 2019
In 2019, one of my goals was to read 52 books – one for every week. Thankfully, I had many friends with great tastes in short books, so I powered through the year with no…
Owler’s new News Feed
Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a better way to get the business news that we curate from thousands of sources to our users.
The pitfalls of automating your vacuum cleaner
I wrote this while thinking about automation after the demise of my robovac.
The bets we make
This is a piece I wrote about dealing with rejection/rejecting.
Data-driven off a cliff: Rekindling a love for the unknown and immeasurable
I wrote this piece on Medium on how obsessing over data in business might cause us to lose track of what’s really important.
Don’t Validate Solutions, Disconfirm Needs
This is a piece I wrote on Medium about designing things to actually solve problems.
The Best Day Ever and What it Taught Me
It was a big day for us. Even seventeen years later, I can still remember walking up the “Alice in Wonderland”-like corridor, with the pattern of its wooden walls oriented downwards as the floor sloped…