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We've recently started a fun thing at home that's helping us explore new foods and teach geography to our two young kids. Here's how it works: Visit random.country and click the button. Get a random…

Like many of you reading this, I occasionally browse Hacker News. Often, these ventures lead me to articles about software estimation and its inherent challenges. Estimating software can indeed be…

"Show Your Work" is a book by Austin Kleon. I've read another of his books in the past about being creative, and this one has a similar vibe. Though the book is quite short, with just 131 pages…

There will come a time in your growth journey when you're expanding so rapidly that micromanaging each new employee's initial weeks becomes unfeasible. The good news? With a bit of preparation and…

If you know even a little about me, you'd know I enjoy playing around with data, and I've been immersed in it lately. Lately, I've taken a liking to the "time-to-merge" metric. In simple terms, the…

I like writing. I like sitting down and getting the thoughts out of my head. However, there's a problem, what do I write about? In a sense, this is kind of a meta post. A post about deciding what to…