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…
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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…
The Point of Everything
A couple of weeks ago, I took some time off work to reflect on what I was trying to accomplish in my life. It very quickly dawned on me that I had basically “ghosted” through…
On Forgetting and Happiness
I can barely remember the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life. I was 15 or 16, and my family and I were in Japan. My dad’s company had paid to send his entire…