Writing

A collection of random thoughts, ideas, and topics. 42 posts and counting.

• 2025-06-10 Clarity Over Completeness
• 2025-04-22 Vibe Hosting
• 2023-09-14 Defaults Matter
• 2023-02-25 The Courage to Explore, the Commitment to Stay
• 2022-10-23 Shutting Down Side Projects
• 2021-05-30 Bystander Businesses
• 2020-09-04 Amazon's Marketplace Problem
• 2020-06-28 Battles of Inches or Miles
• 2020-06-13 The Curse of Excess Information
• 2020-05-25 Five Rules to Read More Books
• 2020-05-19 The First Ten-Thousand
• 2020-03-23 Writing Memos
• 2020-03-18 This Is Water
• 2020-03-07 Lessons From Range
• 2020-02-25 Is An MBA Worth It?
• 2020-02-09 Read to Write, Write to Learn
• 2018-12-28 Reflections on Reading in 2018
• 2018-09-04 Square Cash vs. Venmo
• 2017-01-01 My Best Reading Year Ever
• 2016-06-18 Rethinking The Personal Narrative
• 2016-06-02 Can we speed-listen and still understand?
• 2015-09-22 Thoughts on China and 15 things I learned in Shenzhen
• 2014-09-08 Reddit's tax on Amazon purchases
• 2014-06-03 Why Messages in iOS 8 will make driving safer
• 2014-03-09 CA Lottery: Play Responsibly
• 2014-01-22 For Your Security
• 2013-10-30 Google+ vanity URLs make me like Google+ less
• 2013-10-27 Pay with Amazon in the Wild: The Clymb
• 2013-10-15 The pain of two clicks
• 2013-06-21 How LinkedIn penalizes its users
• 2013-06-04 Why Amazon Fresh is about more than groceries
• 2013-05-09 A quick redesign thanks to Twitter Bootstrap
• 2012-11-02 Direct Mail Optimization: ING DIRECT
• 2012-06-25 Craigslist testing mobile and tablet versions
• 2012-06-04 How many emails do you send a day?
• 2011-05-06 How to have personality: Lessons from Trader Joe’s 1.4 million price tags
• 2011-03-24 AvantLink Stats Chrome Extension
• 2011-03-20 San Francisco's Tsunami Risks: The Facts
• 2011-02-24 Setting up an Amazon EC2 instance: A beginner's guide
• 2011-02-18 URL Structure for Usability and SEO
• 2010-08-18 How to form a California LLC by yourself (Part 2)
• 2010-04-30 How to form a California LLC by yourself (Part 1)