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Many local politicians are elected by razor thin margins of hundreds of votes or less.

When we first started reading to our daughter I realized we had no idea what the ‘good’ books were.

So you’ve joined a new team, company, etc and you are experiencing the cold terror that is your new responsibility area as a product manager.

This is actually pretty simple to do well, but you really have to put in the practice time.

I have experienced anxiety my whole life, at times to degrees that made it really difficult to just have normal, every day interactions.

Recipe for the uninitiated: Tartine Country Loaf.

I think I've been trying to figure out myself and my relationship to the world since I was about 17.

Recently I learned about mimetic desire, originated by Rene Girard, but perhaps popularized in tech by Peter Thiel who saw him as his philosophical mentor.

I was watching YouTube and I ran into this remarkable interview: Ruby is incredible.

TL;DR - You should download my simple little app that I have poured an insane amount of effort into making.

Be curious, not judgmental - Walt Whitman The other day I listened to a podcast between Ezra Klein and Judson Brewer talking about anxiety.

When building products, there are two things that seem extremely important: scope and speed to feedback.

One of the things that got design a seat at the table was data-driven decision making that could be defended.

After building multiple applications used by thousands of paying customers I feel like I've converged on a philosophy of design that could be summed up as 'Design for Repetition'.

When I was younger I had multiple websites where I posted often.