Writing
Writings
Welcome to my archive of posts going back several years. Some are good, some got a lot of attention, some are terrible and embarassing and some, well, let's just say I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote them.
Archive
- John le CarrĂ© and Bernard Pivot's necktie —06/10/22
- web3 degrees of freedom —12/04/21
- How to negotiate —02/01/20
- Social media and fiscal policy —01/16/20
- Exec 101 - Elected not selected —01/13/20
- How to write a cold email —01/07/20
- Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 2 —01/03/20
- Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 1 —12/28/19
- Bluesky early thoughts —11/12/19
- Exec 101 - First 30 days —10/10/19
- BigTechCo 3 - Mullet Businesses —03/12/19
- BigTechCo 2 - Inches vs Miles —10/07/18
- BigTechCo 1 - Paying the Platform Tax —02/24/18
- Less-known interview tips. —08/09/17
- Thoughts on BAT and ads —06/22/17
- Building something no one else can measure —04/23/17
- The celebrity guide to never getting hacked. —09/01/14
- Blockbusters —04/11/13
- Joining Facebook —04/08/13
- Not fundable —12/16/12
- The Wire as a case study of failed corporate strategy —06/22/12
- On testers and testing —01/07/12
- Lessons learnt from shipping APIs for Microsoft's cloud platform —07/21/11
- The publishing world —06/23/11
- On leaving Microsoft —05/10/11
- Microsoft’s Effort to Build Apps and Reward Engineers - NYTimes.com —02/26/11
- Programming Windows Azure now available on Amazon —05/22/10
- Stuff I've learned at Microsoft —12/12/09
- Hardware and software, 2009 edition —12/10/09
- Windows Azure Service Management API —09/28/09
- nskein - a Skein implementation in .NET —08/03/09
- Windows Azure —10/27/08