New York City’s largest union, District Council 37, is in the midst of negotiating a five-year deal that includes, among other things, protections for remote work.

It always seems to take awhile to get resolve an issue with a state agency.

What gets you into a creative field is having really good taste.

One of the many challenges of staying compliant is that the feedback loop can be incredibly slow.

Sometimes the only way to know there is a problem is by receiving a letter in the mail from a state agency.

A recent study found that workers in Manhattan are spending $12.

In There Is No Software Maintenance by Henrik Warne, the author argues that software maintenance is just product development.

In a paper CEO Stress, Aging, and Death, the authors studied the effects of managerial stress on lifespan and visible signs of aging.

A study that looked into the effects of remote learning on grades found that attractive students, both male and female, received better grades during in-person education than remote due to COVID-19.

Many people (myself include) bemoan paying taxes. You might not agree with the lawmakers and policies for spending tax dollars but it does help people.

A recent study from Northwestern Mutual found that Americans expect to need $1.

In the early days of a startup, hiring the early team is one of the biggest challenges.

These days colima is a viable alternative to Docker Desktop on M1 Apple silicon.

In the modern economy, managerial capitalism is the prevailing way companies are run.

The classic model of capitalism (bourgeois capitalism), in which the proprietor of the business fully owns and controls the business, was replaced by managerial capitalism where managers, despite owning small amounts of the company, exhibits full control over the business.

There is a noticeable difference between the speed of the most productive software engineers I’ve worked with and the slowest.

You don’t need full-time G&A roles as your first 10 hires in an early stage startup.

Because the human brain is a universal machine, it contains multiple strange loops that are coarse-grained copies of other strange loops housed in other brains at varying degrees of fidelity.

Anyone can follow instructions—performing a well-understood task step-by-step until it is completed.

The easiest way to know that a new hire isn’t working out (and not fool yourself in the process) is to have a plan before they are hired.

A country with a frontier is shaped by it. It favors people with rugged individualism because common services are not readily available without an existing economy in place.

The Cartier Tank Must is a classic. The design is damn near perfect as a dress watch and instantly adds a little elegance to the moment.

The recent layoffs in tech, especially the large companies like Google and Amazon, got me thinking about the effect of layoffs for the business doing the layoffs.

The latest hyped tactile keyswitch I’m trying out on my primary keyboard, replacing Zealio v2.