Elided Branches

One of my overriding principles is: make it easy for people to do the right thing. This seems like it should be a no-brainer, but it was n...

This is the written version of a presentation I made at the ZooKeeper Users Meetup at Strata/Hadoop World in October, 2012 ( slides availabl...

One of the biggest challenges Rent the Runway has is the challenge of getting women comfortable with the idea of renting. That means a lot o...

I heard a very interesting piece of advice this week from my CEO, addressing a group of college students that were visiting our office. Her ...

One of the reasons people go to work for startups is that sense that anything could change at any time. You could go big, you could go bust,...

Despite the study of computing being termed "Computer Science", most working software developers will agree that development is m...

One of the stereotypes of the computer industry is the person that knows they're right, and doesn't understand when it doesn't m...