This abundance of data suggests that people are poor not because they lack initiative but because they lack resources and opportunities — things that, in many places, money can buy.

—Christopher Blattm...

I have a number of projects on my list for this hack week at Square. The first was to switch to 1Password. Heartbleed was just the excuse I need, plus 50% off from Agile Bits is a nice incentive as we...

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

—Thoreau: http://thoreau.eserver.org/life1.html

The literary equivalent of the emperor’s map would be a biography of everyone in the world, or a novel of every second of every minute of every day: literature, like a map, gains its power from select...

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, ...

The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers int...

At InVivoLink, we switched to using Trello 5 months ago! There are certainly been some obstacles and the initial shift was certainly a shock to the system, but overall, it has made managing software d...

…and I couldn’t be more excited! It is a WIN-WIN-WIN.

1. I will, for the first time, live in the same city as my girlfriend.
2. I will be several hours closer and several hundred dollars cheaper to my famil...

Loved listening to Brad Feld and Jason on This Week in Startups while on my run last week. Brad gave the best analogy for self improvement: the only way to build your muscles up stronger is to work th...

After over a month of giving up Reddit, I’m back on.  I originally quit to increase my productivity.  I had a shit-ton to do, and kept getting sucked into reddit.  

However, when reviewing the data on...