2003 to now

The archive

1,088 posts, including old notes, unfinished thoughts, and the occasional idea that held up.

1,088 posts

2026

Voxelbox is Buzzing
Scaling human attention when agents compress timelines
Teaching agents to learn
Agent deliberation and adversarial review
Experimenting when implementation is free
Don't get too attached
The chief of staff pattern
Writing, Again

2025

Pattern matching with LLMs

2014

Microsoft should buy Xamarin for a lot of money

2011

Of Tragedies and Anniversaries

2010

Rethinking My Blog
One Year after a Cancer Diagnosis

2009

Why Paying to Pitch is Necessarily a Scam
9/11
Fixing LCD Image Persistence on Multi-Monitor Systems
Augmented Reality on the iPhone
Weekend Reading #5
Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity and Risk
The Crash-Test Solution: Using physics to predict economic downturn
Weekend Reading #4
Weekend Reading #3
Adversity
Weekend Reading #2
Weekend Reading #1
The End of the Billable Hour
The Barnacle and The Boat
Scott Adams on Immigration Policy
How to delete an old Windows installation
The Death of Sampling
Haystacks: The real reason behind the Facebook TOS changes
Subjective Truth
BeatingMyCancer
Six years of blogging
Cancer

2008

The Death of AutoTune
Friday Fun (Thanksgiving Edition): Bailout Math Explained
Want to solve the gay marriage issue? Eliminate civil marriage
Dissecting Yammer: A Revenue Stream is not necessarily a Business Model
Dissecting Yammer: Building for the Enterprise
The Innovation Bubble: Copycats and “me too” startups
Remembering September 11th
Announcing the inaugural meeting of the New York ALT.NET group
Announcing the Notches Toolbar
Friday Fun: Wait, Favre isn’t God?
Friday Fun: Betting with weed
Friday Fun: Fun with Teleprompters, or the Worst Sportscaster Ever
Is Live Mesh constantly crashing? Try removing Silverlight
You don’t change the world with a marginally better mousetrap
Revisiting (and rethinking) the Twitter “Pay to Listen” business model
Friday Fun: Unnecessary Censorship in Sesame Street
The Exaggerated Death of Voicemail
You shouldn't start a tech company in Silicon Valley
Google is “fast becoming just another company”
Is IIS7 on Vista not serving static content?
Technology really only matters when it creates new possibilities
We are looking to hire good developers
Explaining copyright with a drawing
Serial Entrepreneurs and High Valuations
Simultaneous Discovery and its impact on stealth mode
Give me an “elite” leader, please
Free can make you a lot of money
The Challenges of Scaling Twitter's Follower Model
Twitter's problems are the result of architecture, XMPP may be the answer
Finding structure when you have no boss
Friday Fun: Porn for the Blind
Students copy honor code
Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free
Dealing with Review Integrity
The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight
Race for CHASE: Donate to a good cause
Notches, a platform for reviews
Readybot cleans your kitchen
Congrats to Nate and Kyle on the BricaBox launch!
Time Management? It's the Attention, Stupid
T-Mobile doesn't know how to treat its customers
Happy (Belated) 5th Birthday to Loosely Coupled
Some amazing water effects in Epic's latest Unreal Engine
Being better than free when copies are ubiquitous
Friday Fun: 2 hippies and the Lone Ranger
MTA's new Trip Planner
Firefox 3 Beta 3
CIGNA Sucks!
Facebook opens up with a JavaScript API
Putting kids where retailers won't go
Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion
TheFunded brings more transparency to raising venture capital
Friday Fun: Hillary's inner Flick
What exactly is "User Generated Content"?
Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership

2007

Creating a better 404
Friday Fun: Best DUI Ever
When will the NFL Network standoff end?
Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas
Rest In Peace, Marc Orchant
Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team
Marc Orchant suffers massive coronary (updated)
How to buy an unlocked iPhone (and thoughts on the iPod Touch)
Security implications of MyBlogLog vs. BlogRovr
The Intense Debate Experiment
Verizon to open up its network and devices
I definitely picked the right law school...
The Gillmor Gang is back (sort of)
Why Notches isn't "Anti-Stealth"
Friday Fun: LOLCODE! on the DLR
Interested in working at a startup? Come to MatchupCamp
Radio Silence
EchoStar acquired by Sling Media
How do you get started raising venture capital?
Justice Department says ISPs are like the Post Office
Unlocking the iPhone
September 11th
The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online
More about raising too much venture capital
Distinguishing between a platform and a destination
I want a motorized cooler
Professional bloggers get journalist rights
The Full vs. Partial RSS Feed Debate
Facebook: Lawsuits, IPOs, and Acquisitions
What exactly is an iPhone application?
What's the best state to incorporate in? Probably Delaware
Looking at Google's acquisition of Postini
Valuation: Sometimes you *can* take too much money
The Hypocrisy of Live Earth
Friday Fun: The perfect car for Manhattan?
The iPhone is a game-changer
iPhone impressions
More on UrgeMS.exe
Is touch the next big thing in mobile?
Twitter is, or will be, a Messaging Platform
There's no such thing as Web 2.0
The Sopranos Series Finale
Refocusing Net Neutrality
The real reason for Google's free 411 service
Aloha, Mahalo.com
Microsoft Silverlight
RIM announces Application Suite for Windows Mobile
On finishing law school... and what's next
Why I chose the Dash
Arguing Intelligently about Copyright
Be positive in your dialogs
The Problem with Multitasking
Blogs are "definitely not reputable news sources"
Missing SAPPHIRE
Major Blackberry Outage
What are your predictions for The Sopranos?
Is Apple about to launch a subscription service?
Understanding the Cablevision DVR lawsuit
Concept phone designed by high school student
How Microsoft can crush Google