Systems
What a cold storage taught me about software
The most useful lessons I have had about building software did not come from a tech company. They came from working out how to count sacks of potatoes honestly.
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Essays on software, work, books and attention.
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Reflection
Why I still keep a website
Feeds are good at showing you today. A personal website is better at keeping the things that should still be there next year.
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Books
What to do with a book you disagree with
The most useful books on my shelf are not always the ones I agree with. Sometimes reading a book well means arguing with it the whole way through.
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Travel
You do not have to go far
Far-away places get the attention, but Bangladesh has taught me just as much about how to look at a landscape.
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Systems
In praise of boring technology
The most important question about a technology is not how exciting it is today. It is who will be keeping it alive in ten years, and how tired they will be.
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Project
The moment something goes wrong
Most instructions assume that you will do everything right. Building a coffee app taught me that the real design problem starts the moment you don’t.
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Technology
Build it so it works with the AI switched off
AI is usually the first thing people ask about when they hear about a study app. I made it the last thing that matters, and the app is better for it.
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