I love work. It drives me. It’s exciting. Everything about building things with folks is a pure thrill. Like when I crack open a hard design problem and learn something! Or when a test passes on a big refactor! Or when I watch a designer reveal something new about human cognition, about typography, about language,...

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This past January 13th I turned 43, and as I approached that day, I spent a lot of time over winter break reflecting on the past decades I worked in the tech industry. About a year ago I had a similar reflection when I rage-quit, but I eventually came around to doing some contract work to make some money and then...

I had a request to create a human-readable list of the OPML files that I posted earlier this week.

After the thaw, I took a walk around town and saw some interesting snow sculptures

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Too much collaboration is detrimental. Many leaders constantly recommend or guide their teams to collaborate closely with other teams. I know they have good intentions, but that’s harmful. Good collaboration has a scope and time limits. If we give two groups of people a common goal to achieve, they “become” one team...