Most people have more to do than time to do it. Strategic procrastination is a trick I use to make sure I have time for important but non-urgent tasks.
Strategic procrastination: keeping my perfectionism at bay
Contingency and the Cold War
I recently read the 2013 book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, a well-sourced account of the Cold War by the journalist Eric Schlosser. The book makes it clear what a miracle it…
Two lessons on reducing sign-up friction
I learned the hard way how important a carefully designed sign-up process is. I saw a large percentage of interested people fail to sign up because of easily preventable flaws in the flow.
Cortado
I built Cortado to make it easy to stay up to date with refreshing your feeds all day. It's a web app that gets the latest content from sources like Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, and Youtube, and sends them to…
Run visualization
Toward the end of 2014, I decided to take a break from running the same routes and instead systematically run on every street in a region around the Prospect Park. The animated visualization of these runs is surprisingly pleasing.…