The Case for Boring Technology
Every small team eventually faces the same decision: adopt the exciting new framework, database or platform, or stick with the dull one that already works. Nine times out of ten, the boring choice is the correct one — and the tenth time is usually a…
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Notes on Working From Anywhere
Two years of working from wherever the flights were cheap taught me less about travel than it did about how little I actually need at a desk. The romantic version of “working from anywhere” involves a beach. The real version involves a…
Building a Morning Routine That Actually Sticks
Every failed morning routine I’ve had shared one trait: it was designed for a version of me that doesn’t exist on a Tuesday with four hours of sleep. The routines that actually lasted were boring, short, and survived a bad night. Design for…
Ten Days Through Northern Portugal, Slowly
We had eleven days, a rental car with a stubborn clutch, and a rule we made up on the plane: no more than one planned thing per day. Everything else was left open for wrong turns, long lunches and whatever the person at the next table recommended. Porto,…
Five Kitchen Tools Worth the Money
Most kitchen gadgets earn a drawer and then a donation pile. These five have survived several moves and years of daily use, which in gadget terms counts as a rave review. What didn’t make the list Single-purpose gadgets, mostly. An avocado slicer…
What Small Teams Get Right About Hiring
The best hiring decision I’ve watched a small team make wasn’t a clever interview question. It was admitting, out loud, that the role they’d written down wasn’t the job they actually needed done — and rewriting it before a single…
A Weeknight Guide to Better Pasta
Most weeknight pasta goes wrong in the same three places: the water isn’t salty enough, the sauce is finished before the pasta joins it, and nothing ever gets a splash of the starchy cooking water to pull it together. Fix those three things and…
The Quiet Rise of Ambient Computing
For twenty years, “using a computer” meant sitting down in front of one. That assumption is quietly breaking. The interesting software of the last few years doesn’t ask for your attention so much as wait at the edge of it — a thermostat…