The quaintness of “content” vs “infrastructure”

Here’s a really informative article on the economics of Google’s fiber offer. One of the key takeaways is that Google’s ownership of high-bandwidth content (YouTube) gives them leverage in peering arrangements...

Two, billion-dollar UI mistakes in Windows 8

I am very interested in Windows 8 both as a user and as a tech industry watcher...

Resolution vs “real estate”

The new Retina Macbook looks quite beautiful, but from a productivity standpoint I am a bit disappointed...

Fluency

At my ripe old age one might expect me to give up programming and focus more on management...

This way madness lies (thankfully)

Tim Lee offers two views of the economic case for innovation. I am certainly more Hayekian — I think expertise and information is inherently dispersed and the Hayekian view is more granular, if you will...

Conservative and liberal

The ideas of conservative and liberal have become very confused, and in many cases exactly backwards...

What’s next for Better Bird?

We’ve got a few hundred folks using Better Bird, my Chrome extension for fixing the Twitter web UI, and I’m thrilled...

The inorganic app

It occurs to me, as I look at my Google+ stream for the first time in two months, the reason I never use it: it never had a chance to grow on me...

A failure of empathy

Consider for a moment the logic of the leading paragraph of this article: Research suggests that consumers spend only about one second looking at nutrition information when making myriad choices...

C# should be truthy-y

While “truthy” values in JavaScript can cause no small amount of heartache, one must admit they help readability...