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It’s surprising to realize that they’re the same. They are both places to hide. When we ship average work, it’s not our fault. We’re simply doing…

Fire inspectors | Seth’s Blog Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as…

In a bad 1950s science fiction movie, you might see flying jetpacks, invisibility cloaks and ray guns. What we got instead is a device that fits…

Adjacent but not relevant | Seth’s Blog There’s a sale on band saw blades, including a really good deal on one that fits the saw you…

Silence vs noise | Seth’s Blog When a group comes together, noise is easy. Just a few people have to make a commotion for noise to…

IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three cases, there’s plenty of evidence that…

New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. “Look, Mikey, he…

What better time? An hour a day for a month and you can learn a skill you’ll have forever. Beach reads are a fine way to…

Reclaiming “fiasco” | Seth’s Blog Usually modified with “total,” the failure might not be as bad as we fear. The origin of the word probably comes…

There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there’s no riverbank that’s exactly…