Articles

Twitter, LinkedIn, and Failing in Public 2025-07-23

What I miss about Twitter-that-was

I Walked Across Spain 2025-07-14

Some notes on walking the Camino de Santiago

Thoughtful Professional Writing 2025-05-07

The hard part about writing is thinking

Transactionalism vs Respect 2025-05-05

Why I hate swag

Hammers and Nailguns 2025-01-06

What is a tool for?

Python Support is Socially Complex 2024-12-09

Ambiguity of responsibility makes support difficult for everyone

Cloud Computing is Broken 2024-12-03

Let's strive towards excellence on boring problems

Venting and Constructive Communication 2024-10-25

To Vent is Human

SatCamp Retrospective 2024-10-04

The Earth observation ecosystem from an outsider's perspective

How I Almost Quit My Job, and How Being Selfish Saved Me 2024-09-20

What Does Pangeo 2.0 Look Like? 2024-09-18

Past, present, and future of scalable geoscience in Python

Usage Based Pricing 2024-09-04

How GitHub taught me to Micromanage 2024-05-11

Hiring Sales 2024-04-29

Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn Comparison 2023-11-10

Decision Fatigue 2023-03-18

Laser Eye Correction 2023-03-06

Performance Reviews 2023-02-14

SaaS Go-to-Market 2023-02-01

How I Conduct an Interview 2023-01-06

Rethinking My Website and Blog 2023-01-02

Think for yourself 2022-12-26

Audio-Visual Setup 2022-12-18

HD is the new tall

Meetings 2022-12-02

Stability Bias 2022-12-02

Optimizing for past and future users

Offsites 2022-09-12

Failure 2022-09-05

Startup Advice 2022-09-05

User Valued Work 2022-08-24

Over Grown 2022-08-09

SciPy Mission 2022-08-01

Revenue 2022-07-25

Small Scope Reviews 2022-03-26

The secret to happy devs

Tech Leads 2021-06-24

Startup Metrics 2020-10-28

Ideal Tweet 2020-08-18

Short attention span 2020-07-13

Brevity is the soul of wit

Listen to sell 2019-12-05

A practical tip for for engineers in sales calls

Senior Engineers 2019-11-09

Short Blogposts 2019-06-25

reducing expectations for the win

Avoid Indirection 2019-06-23

for human readability

Maintainers 2019-05-18

Why I Avoid Slack 2019-02-28

Craft Minimal Bug Reports 2018-02-28

Write Dumb Code 2018-01-27

Biased Benchmarks 2017-03-09

Honesty is hard

Write Tests 2016-02-08

Dictionaries v. Objects 2013-09-02

a story of shared abstractions