Reading List
- Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the worst waste of resources and energy in human history. It is solely used for financial speculation, with no genuine utility…
- What you read is none of their business
David Heinemeier Hansson
There’s this scene in the 90s movie Se7en where the detectives played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are able to hone in on the serial killer via a secret FBI program that monitors people’s library habits. The killer, played by Kevin Spacey, has been reading Dante’s Divine Comedy, Milton’s Paradise…
- When Should I Interrupt Someone?
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought: Is it OK if I interrupt someone else to get them to help me?Pretty much every engineer ever Since I work w…
- The Value of a Personal Site
Back when I was setting this site up for the first time, there was a common theme across many of the resources I was reading. Almost all of them said to treat a personal site as a ‘business card for the Web’. While that idea is a fine starting point if you're only looking for a site to show some basic contact information, I think doing so does a disservice to yourself.