Collections

To make it easier to figure out what to read, I've organized my writing into a series of collections around topics. Feel free to work your way through them.

For longer posts, I also publish them as ebooks to make them easier to read. For $1.99, you can download them as a pdf and epub.

Here's a list:

Case Studies (2)

⭑ When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done, May 23, 2022
Print on Demand: Platform Design and High-Volume Merchants, October 06, 2019

Close Readings (5)

Reflecting on Books I Read in 2022, January 25, 2023
Books I Read in 2021, January 23, 2022
Books I Read in 2020, December 29, 2020
Books That Left a Lasting Impression, July 29, 2020
Close Read: "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei" by Eliot Weinberger, March 29, 2020

Error States (2)

Preserving Digital Media, September 27, 2020
The Internet of Pipes, April 05, 2020

How To Business (12)

What Should Be on the Roadmap?, December 27, 2022
⭑ When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done, May 23, 2022
⭑ The Product Management Reading List, July 11, 2021
Designing Products and Businesses: The Stack Fallacy, March 02, 2021
Enterprise Software is Messy and Difficult... That’s Why It Requires Transparency and Collaboration, February 21, 2021
No One Ever Tests Counterintuitive Things, January 09, 2021
Always Have a Real Use Case, November 29, 2020
Some Frameworks for Bad Management, August 21, 2020
Priorities: Put Users First, Business Second, Operations Third, Tech Fourth, December 23, 2019
Advice to Young Grads, November 15, 2019
Imposter Syndrome and Systems (& Why It's Not "Just In Your Head"), September 15, 2019
Some Common Planning Fallacies, July 12, 2017

Learning (1)

⭑ How Learning Works: Components, Systems, and Loops, October 31, 2021

Opinions (1)

How Long Until Cloud Kitchens are the SEO-Hacking of Food Delivery?, October 05, 2022

Projects (6)

⭑ How I Built A Simple Image-Gallery Static Site Generator, December 13, 2020
GitGhost: An Automated Git + HTML Backup Script, July 25, 2020
Mockingbird Mixtapes, April 23, 2020
A Simple Gallery, April 05, 2020
Error States, February 21, 2020
Thought Leaders, December 08, 2015

Reading Lists (3)

The Sales Reading List, September 28, 2022
⭑ The Product Management Reading List, July 11, 2021
Some Interesting Ideas I've Come Across, May 23, 2020

Standalone Posts (4)

What Now & What's Next, April 19, 2022
Harvard and McKinsey's Bad Statistics, March 15, 2020
Environmentalism & Entangled Systems, December 07, 2019
We Live in a Nation of Men, Prone to Error, July 27, 2013

Working With Data (3)

From NoSQL to SQL: Turning Key-Value Pairs into Old Fashioned Tables for Analytics, November 18, 2019
Designing For Data-Intensive Applications, September 15, 2019
Cleaning Data from an ELT Process, August 02, 2019

Working With Ghost (10)

How To Build a Custom Announcements Bar for Your Ghost Theme, October 18, 2022
Ghost + Flask: Programmatically Adding New App Users into your Ghost Newsletter, September 19, 2022
Fixing Ghost Memory Spikes & Server Crashes, April 28, 2022
48 Hours of Migrating Ghost from One URL on AWS to Another URL on Digital Ocean, April 26, 2022
Compiling Ghost Themes (If Your CSS Isn't Updating), May 24, 2021
Three Different Types of Post Loops in Ghost, August 23, 2020
Easey: A Ghost Blog Theme, July 27, 2020
GitGhost: An Automated Git + HTML Backup Script, July 25, 2020
Getting HTTPS to Work Properly on an AWS/Bitnami Ghost Installation, February 02, 2020
Creating a "Recent Posts" Loop, January 03, 2020

Working with Miscellaneous Technology (3)

Notes on Using the Mac Terminal, May 09, 2021
The 95% Guide to Optimizing Your Website's Performance, February 28, 2021
Getting Started with a Hugo Blog & GitHub Pages, February 15, 2020