In 2001 I was at a company I’d started called State Software… we produced some brilliant demonstrations and were beginning to make some progress in… Read More »Douglas Crockford on making a standard (JSON) (1)
Here’s the opener – more on his site. Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality… Read More »Links from Patrick Collison on air pollution and cognition and (so) GDP
This is a great question, and a big question, a question for which help is available but which ultimately, you need to answer for yourself… Read More »“What can I do to make things better?” (1)
(Or coffee? Or beer? Or fries with that?) … is a good test case for thinking about your personal decision making. It has all the… Read More »Would you like a cup of tea?
It can be helpful to think of your project or organisation as a black box – not a flight data recorder, but as something that… Read More »Black boxes
I was working on the paper with a professor at Yale… and I sent him a draft of the paper. He sends me back his… Read More »Steve Levitt on writing, letting work sit for a while and humility
Listening to Suo Gân evokes a nostalgia for 1930s Shanghai* almost as strong as the nostalgia I feel for the 1980s Hong Kong of my… Read More »Lost Worlds
The whole memo is well worth reading, but this bit stood out: I’ve saved my favorite piece of advice to the end. The “Two-And-Done” Rule… Read More »Mad Ned: the two and done rule
It makes sense that one of the jobs most amenable to automation by AI must be computer programming itself. For all their complicated (as opposed… Read More »OpenAI Codex; or, why you might not want to go all in on becoming a full-stack developer
This is a great introduction to the Business Model Canvas. I still prefer the long one from 2012, but this much shorter one clearly outlines… Read More »Alex Osterwalder: a blueprint for innovation (Business Model Canvas)