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

• Battling status traps in web2 social networks —08/31/22
• John le Carré 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