Archive for 2015

You don’t want to be treated like a commodity? Why are you acting like one?

When are you proud? Are you proud to own and drive that car? Are you proud to be the first to get that new phone amongst your peers? Are you proud to experience that event by your favourite artist? Build your product to entice people to feel proud when they interact with it and you…

User accounts! A good rule of thumb is the rule of thirds. A third of your registered user accounts (that aren’t free) will be paid up. A third of your paid up accounts will be logged in at peak times. A third of your users will never log in for any one third of a…

You can make it for the masses that don’t do that (yet) or don’t want that (yet). Or you can make it for the faithful who will do that (always) or will want that (always). But you cannot make it for both. You have to decide which one is your audience, and then stick to…

There is no art without risk. When was the last time you created art?

Create something only you could have created. The moment you cross that threshold, you become valued and indispensable.

When you search for “programming” in stock photo image sites, 99.9% of all returned results have jack shit to do with *ACTUAL* programming.

The modern interpretation of Nihilism is the province of youth. Or perhaps just the mentally and socially immature.

The internet has given voice to many who did not have one. Unfortunately it has given voice to many who should not have one until they learn to shut up, listen and form a reasoned opinion of their own.

I support you. I stand up for you. I will stand beside you. We should all have equality. But is this pride? Or are you just using pride as an excuse to be vulgar?

If you work in an office where your work goes un-credited, either internally or externally, then your work is invisible, and so are you. And it is worth asking “why?”

A lack of curiousity, and the inability or unwillingness to frame a question, ensures that you will never be an expert in your chosen subject. You probably won’t even be mediocre.

On the subject of diversity in technology and business, there is much to be said on the subject, but right now it just consists of an awful lot of people talking.

“This authentic French baguette recipe calls for 3 tbsp of sugar.” Seriously America, WTF!?! We’re making bread here, not cake!

If you think you are going to entice the best engineers in San Francisco into working for you by spamming a Jobvite link where they can fill out a bunch of fields and upload their resume, you probably should rethink your hiring strategy. Seriously rethink your hiring strategy. Those engineers you are trying to woo…

If you got in to game design because you like to tell stories, I need to take you out behind the woodshed and show you my leather belt.

Modern radio would actually be bearable if it wasn’t for the music and the presenters.

Chatting with a group of entrepreneurs about when is the appropriate time to talk about your start-up when one of them mentions that I don’t talk much about my current project. I respond “My start-up idea isn’t in stealth, I just don’t want to talk about it.” Stealth in the start-up world has become a…

Client: “We need to be really careful with how we handle this database migration.” Me: “I shall be as cautious as a blind man with a cutthroat razor shaving his balls.” *Shit! did I really say that out loud?* Client: “There is such a thing as too much caution. We want the job complete before…