So you’ve joined a new team, company, etc and you are experiencing the cold terror that is your new responsibility area as a product manager. I think you have about 90 days to demonstrate that you are…

This is actually pretty simple to do well, but you really have to put in the practice time. Don't kid yourself, it is humiliating to fuck up a presentation because you didn't practice enough. Unforced…

I have experienced anxiety my whole life, at times to degrees that made it really difficult to just have normal, every day interactions. However, I’ve always simultaneously pushed myself really…

Recipe for the uninitiated: Tartine Country Loaf . The book is more detailed. I used to live 2 blocks from Tartine in the Mission of SF. A year ago we moved to the East Bay to seek a more, let's…

I think I've been trying to figure out myself and my relationship to the world since I was about 17. About 20 years of introspection. That's... maybe too much. I got into spiritual stuff when I was…

Recently I learned about mimetic desire, originated by Rene Girard , but perhaps popularized in tech by Peter Thiel who saw him as his philosophical mentor. The TL;DR of mimetic desire is that…

I was watching YouTube and I ran into this remarkable interview: Ruby is incredible. It's clear that she is just a force of nature. She exudes life at the age of 87, and as 'limber as a dishrag', she…

TL;DR - You should download my simple little app that I have poured an insane amount of effort into making. Please only tell me that you love it, but also report bugs! About two years ago I started…

Be curious, not judgmental - Walt Whitman The other day I listened to a podcast between Ezra Klein and Judson Brewer talking about anxiety. If you have even mild bouts of anxiety, I highly recommend…

When building products, there are two things that seem extremely important: scope and speed to feedback. If you can ruthlessly prioritize, you can focus. If you can tighten your feedback loops, you…

One of the things that got design a seat at the table was data-driven decision making that could be defended. I don't have any evidence to support this, but I really think that design's difficulty in…

After building multiple applications used by thousands of paying customers I feel like I've converged on a philosophy of design that could be summed up as 'Design for Repetition'. Is your app used a…

When I was younger I had multiple websites where I posted often. I didn't care what I wrote because I was just writing for my friends. Doing this improved my writing dramatically. It forced me to…