Matt Inouye

Like many people in tech, I’ve enjoyed the vibe coding era over the last year.

I’ve had a personal website for a decade and I post maybe once or twice a year.

Olga et Paulo: la Soupe (Maternité) by Picasso In tech, we love to mythologize the six-page memo.

Writing code with AI is a lot of fun.

Defaults are like drugs.

Life is about trade-offs.

I finally shut down a website I had been running since 2009–over 13 years.

As large platforms consolidate attention online, they are incentivized to launch new products that feed on that growing attention.

Amazon is the unquestioned leader of selling stuff online.

h/t to @sriramk for this idea.

In the age of endless information, what if more information isn’t actually a good thing?

Reading a book is a big ask.

There’s something sticky about the number ten-thousand.

Although I’ve never considered myself a writer, I set a goal in January to become better at “using my words”.

I was shuffling through some papers yesterday and came across a copy of David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech at Kenyon College.

I just finished David Epstein’s amazing book Range, and have been thinking about it non-stop for the past week.

When people find out I have an MBA, I’m almost always asked about it’s value.

[Originally posted on Medium] Four years ago, I had a reading epiphany.

Developing a better reading practice was a huge accomplishment for me in 2016, and I’m happy to still be going strong two years later.

I recently saw these tweets by Keith Rabois: Assuming this was investor hyperbole, I did some more digging and was surprised to learn that Square Cash is doing incredibly well.

2016 was the year that I really discovered books.

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

[Originally posted on Medium] Over the past couple of years, I’ve started to consume more and more information through spoken audio — the explosion of new podcasts and the production of great audiobooks has made listening to that content an irreplaceable…

For much of this year I’ve been fascinated with Chinese technology companies.

Yesterday I saw the following sponsored ad on the reddit homepage.

Messages in iOS 8 I just downloaded the iOS 8 beta and after playing around, I can’t help but feel that audio messages will be a huge deal for a lot of people.

The Mega Millions jackpot just hit $309 million, and it’s great timing because March is National Problem Gambling Awareness month!

For your security, we may ask you these security questions to verify your identity.

I just received this email from Google+, informing me I can get a custom URL for my profile: Clicking the Get URL button took me to my profile with this modal: In case you can’t tell, the URL is not changeable–my custom URL has been “preapproved”.

I’ve been very interested in online payment systems as of late–with the Braintree acquisition by PayPal, international expansion by Stripe, and the launch of Cash by Square, the space is definitely heating up.

I’m an active user of Google apps and I spend much of my day inside of Gmail.

The more I use LinkedIn, the more I’m baffled by the way that they deceptively encourage people to pay for their premium service.

According to Reuters, Amazon is planning on rolling out it’s grocery delivery service to several new markets: LA and SF this year and potentially up to 20 additional markets in 2014.

My friend Tito has a small biotech hardware company he’s run on the side for several years.

I’ve received two pieces of direct mail recently from ING DIRECT, inviting me to open an online checking account.

Hell hath frozen over.

How many emails do you send in day?

Trader Joe’s knows marketing.

AvantLink is an Affiliate Marketing network–think an intermediary between merchants who want to have an affiliate program and publishers who want to make money off of their content.

Due to several sensational news articles in recent days (most prompted by the tragic events in Northern Japan), friends and family (read my mom) have asked me about the dangers of living so close to the coast, and particularly about the risk of a giant ts…

I recently decided to move a project onto Amazon’s EC2 from a dedicated box I’ve been running for a couple of months.

Maybe it’s my love for all things organization, but well-formed URLs are just plain satisfying.

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I aspire to be one] I’m excited to finally be able to write this follow-up post.

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I aspire to be one] I recently decided to take the plunge and incorporate–partially so I can have rad business cards, but mainly for legal and tax reasons.