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…
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…