My Writing

It’s important to understand what kind of project you are dealing with. Mistaking a heavy lift project for a simmering one makes life more difficult.

Almost 1 year and 1300hrs learning the biggest things since university.

This one human truth explains why people good, bad, and unlikely become leaders

Last night I tried a Vision Pro and it reminded of the rare moments when a piece of tech changed some part of my life.

Understanding the human factor in technological revolutions

In the business world where perfectly polished personas are the norm, one quality stands calmly and defiantly out of place: genuineness.

A motivation framework for your team.

Another progress report on the way toward rebuilding my app in SwiftUI. In this update, I demo the app icon switcher, which is quite unique compared to the typical ones you see in apps and the new birthday pre-reminders.

There's that 10,000 hour rule of thumb for becoming an expert; there's a similar one around 1000 hours for learning something new.

I would consider this for a v1 — very proud to have gotten this far.

We are beginning to see Elon Musk’s demons dismantle everything he’s built.

Self-directed modern learning with online courses, videos, and websites was very different from the textbook school-style I did before. The single biggest thing that's helped me is creating my own "cheatsheet."

I want to apologize to all the developers I've ever worked with... for all the pain I've inflicted by making you put fancy animations into mobile apps.

It wasn't about money or power, but something much more important

Every project has the moment when you've burned through all the original excitement and your motivation wanes.

I'm surprised the ex-Apple people of this startup missed this

What OpenAI telegraphed about their product strategy in their recent Dev Days conference.

Years ago I interviewed for a Google Product Manager role and didn’t get it. What I was missing was humility.

Half a millenium of hours learning how to program.