Tech

How tech company perks are designed to keep employees at work forever, not to necessarily benefit them long-term.

The Daily Drucker. Organizational Theory. Insurance. Tom Cruise Movies. A story about culture, education, and the importance of diving deep into what you do.

A journey through note-taking systems from Roam Research to Notion, exploring how databases and daily notes can tame creative chaos without killing spontaneity.

An examination of Alibaba's Qwen AI model—how it challenges Western dominance in LLMs while revealing the complex intersection of technology, censorship, and geopolitics.

The Bear. Netflix. Mesa Grill Rolls. Cup 4 Cup. Yoda. Airborne Toxic Event. The Life Impossible. Brain Rot. Hemingway.

An intersection of AI writing tools, human creativity, and the experiment of building an automated writing system.

When Google's AI answers questions instead of referring traffic to content creators, what happens to the web's incentive model and the future of online writing?

Testing an earth battery to keep a novel honest—because some scenes deserve a real-world trial run.

Going back to Nintendo’s Punch-Out!! Yes, almost 30 years later …

Old tech nostalgia collides with Flash’s rise, fall, and the beliefs it captured.

A vintage campaign website still online proves the web’s long memory—and the nostalgia baked into 1996.

Finding old technology, what would you do?

Technical reviews, always good to revisit as technology keeps changing year over year.

Building a backyard electromagnet with my son, sparks, missteps, and all.

The importance of moveable type.

Celebrating Skype’s animated reactions and the little UX touches that keep conversations fun.

Building a blog with Ghost and Azure Web Services with my kid. Building a website, playing with machine learning, virtual machines, and Content Management Systems.