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Archive

Here's all my posts in chronological order. I hope you find something interesting and relevant. Cheers!

2024

Rethinking Strategy: Planning vs. Reacting
Pessimists sound smart. Optimists change the world.
Adventure Bees

2023

Remembering Charlie Munger
On Being a Modern Software Explorer
Inspiration is a Time Machine
Fintech Engineering Challenges
ChatGPT-4 is More Creative than You
Voluntary AI Safety?
Corporate Bullsh*t
Making Software Last Forever
Estimates are a Business Function, not an Engineering Function
Performing a Complete Role
Architecture Principles
The 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy is a wake-up call for software developers
Engineering Software is Nothing Like Engineering a Bridge
Committees vs. Working Groups

2022

Analyze Your Dreams using AI
What's Not Going To Change
Lessons We All Learn
Privacy is going to suck in the Metaverse
How Software Learns
Teaching Coding vs. Learning Coding
Microservices: A Technical Solution to a People Problem?
Risky Business
Values or Beliefs?
Vision and Talent or Planning?
Make Meetings Disappear

2021

Dangerous MVPs
Individuals Matter
Human Denial of Service Attacks
Culture - Measure what you Treasure
Mob Programming with 65 Million of Your Peers
Are we Paying the Ransom or Not?
Can you Spot an Underfunded Technology Department?

2019

Executable Documentation
"Digital" Business Card?
I'm OK; the Bull is Dead.
The Inertia of Enterprise Despair

2018

Hammer Factories
Modern Web Development
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica
Turn Your Company Inside-Out for $3/mo

2017

Why Net Neutrality Matters
How to Become Invincible
Finally: Some Sane Password Advice
1791: We Did Not See This Coming
The Inside-Out Corporation
The Man Least Likely to Succeed in Politics

2016

Free to Believe Anything
Microsoft Surface Studio is Mindblowing

2015

It’s secure… until it’s not
Proprietary Software is an Unsafe Building Material
Is it Secure?
Why Automate Code Reviews?
The "New" New Microsoft
Make Big Bets
Keep it Simple... UX Design

2014

President Obama's Plan for a Free and Open Internet
USA's Digital Playbook
From Open Government to Open Corporation
CoreOS: thousands of machines and millions of Docker containers... no hypervisor needed.
Virtual Machines vs Containers
Enterprise Search 2014
IPv6 Gets Real
A Soul Crushing Exercise
Facebook Saves a BILLION Dollars via Open Compute Designs
Billion Dollar March Madness Bracket
NY FinTech Community is Thriving
Supercomputer Weather Visualization in a Browser

2013

Responsive Design vs. Mobile-First
Technology Adoption Curves vs. Birth Year and Life Expectancy
Apple's Astounding Capital Expenditures
Intrinsic Bias
Work Like Hell
Only Usain Bolt Looks at the Clock

2012

Risk Mitigation Costs Too Much
Minority Report and Big Data
TEDx Orange Coast 2012
Apple Reaches for Greatness Without Apology

2011

The Corporate iCloud, part 2
The Corporate iCloud

2010

iPad Goes Corporate
Lessons from Haiti - Never Under Estimate Ease of Use