Blog
2026
- 04 Feb: Frozen Turtles
- 07 Jan: Seventeen Cavities
2025
- 25 Jun: Festina Lente
- 07 May: The Wrinkly Razor
- 02 Apr: Bitter is the Eye of the Beholder
- 12 Mar: Your Mask is Slipping
- 05 Feb: The Demonic Force Sedating Your Soul
- 01 Jan: Seattle in Zazen
2023
- 19 Dec: The Trust Ratio
- 21 Nov: Core Product, Whole Product
- 14 Nov: Yogurt Making
- 24 Oct: Halloweenacy
- 12 Oct: The Preference Pyramid
- 19 Sep: Fork in the Stone
- 05 Sep: Papercuts
- 24 Aug: Woodshedding
- 12 Aug: Maps and Territory
- 10 Aug: Galápagosization
- 03 Aug: Welcome the Hydra
- 28 Jul: Beware Scale
- 08 Jun: The Portmanteau Strategy
- 26 May: Bike Commuting
- 05 May: The Ski Lesson
- 24 Apr: Glass, Rubber, and Cloth
- 05 Apr: After-Dinner Mints
- 15 Mar: A Party of One
- 22 Feb: Rootwork
- 08 Feb: Cover Crops
- 26 Jan: Start with the Jar
- 11 Jan: Four Frames
2022
- 23 Dec: Social Arithmetic
- 17 Dec: The Conversational Octopus
- 09 Dec: Seven Puzzles
- 02 Dec: Steering Pegasus
- 20 Nov: Going Reptilian
- 10 Nov: Thinking Caps
- 29 Oct: Frankensteining
- 21 Oct: Finding and Making
- 17 Oct: Embracing Seasonality
- 22 Sep: Caves and Cathedrals
- 17 Sep: Exploring the Great Lake of Knowledge
- 08 Sep: Creative Distillation
- 01 Sep: Concentration Muscles
- 25 Aug: Crawl, Walk, Run
- 11 Aug: A Square Sees a Sphere
- 04 Aug: The Tragic Sandwich
- 28 Jul: Wicked Problems
- 21 Jul: Recursive Pareto
- 14 Jul: Four Stages of Competence
- 07 Jul: Wabi-Sabi
- 23 Jun: Baseline vs. Target
- 21 Jun: Input vs. Output
- 19 Jun: Cobra Effect
- 09 Jun: Dogfooding
- 07 Jun: Localhost Trap
- 05 Jun: Vocal Minority vs. Mobile Minority
- 26 May: Red Pill or Blue Pill
- 24 May: One-Way and Two-Way Doors
- 22 May: System I & System II
- 12 May: Lindy Effect
- 10 May: Locksmith Paradox
- 08 May: Aesthetic-Usability Effect
- 28 Apr: Eudaimonia
- 26 Apr: Potemkin Village
- 24 Apr: The Tokyo Effect
- 14 Apr: Stonecutter vs. Mechanic
- 12 Apr: Fragile, Resilient, Antifragile
- 10 Apr: Zone Two
- 31 Mar: Magical Buckets
- 19 Mar: The Slowest Hiker
- 17 Mar: Secondhand Smoke
- 15 Mar: Gravitational Pull
- 05 Mar: Eating the Frog
- 03 Mar: Underpants Gnomes
- 01 Mar: Gray Time
- 17 Feb: Chronos and Kairos
- 15 Feb: Cliffhangers
- 13 Feb: Zeignarik Effect
- 06 Feb: Warrior vs. Soldier vs. Police
- 04 Feb: Maker vs. Manager vs. Minder
- 01 Feb: Reader vs. Listener
- 20 Jan: Mind Mapping
- 18 Jan: What? Why? How?
- 16 Jan: Faster Horses
- 13 Jan: Red, Yellow, and Green Energy
- 11 Jan: Appetite Planning
- 09 Jan: A Ritual of Retrospectives
2021
- 30 Dec: The Hedgehog & The Fox
- 29 Dec: The Overton Window
- 28 Dec: New Math
- 23 Dec: Astroturfing
- 22 Dec: Poisoning the Well
- 21 Dec: Gaslighting
- 17 Dec: Jakob's Law & Decorum
- 16 Dec: First, Do No Harm
- 15 Dec: Unforced Errors
- 14 Dec: The Sorting Hat
- 09 Dec: Framestorming
- 08 Dec: Five Whys
- 07 Dec: In What Context?
- 03 Dec: Luck Surface Area
- 02 Dec: Whitespace
- 24 Nov: The Mythical Mother Month
- 23 Nov: Cheap, Fast, and Good
- 18 Nov: Alligators and Kittens
- 17 Nov: Don't be caught by the passive voice
- 16 Nov: Inversion is Not
- 11 Nov: Shaving Yaks
- 10 Nov: Four-Blade Razor
- 09 Nov: Hairy Arms
- 04 Nov: Cosmic Insignificance
- 03 Nov: Six Blind Folks
- 02 Nov: Temperature Check
- 31 Oct: Beware the Bike Shed
- 29 Oct: The road to hell is sloppily paved in adverbs
- 28 Oct: Color Coordination for Dummies
- 25 Oct: The Asymmetric Crab
- 13 Sep: Two Lists
- 05 Sep: The Shapes of Euchre
- 29 Aug: Bones Before Flesh
- 28 Aug: How to Play Euchre
- 22 Aug: Don't Miss Two
- 02 Aug: Pomodoro
- 28 Jul: Draft One
- 01 Jun: Doorstops
- 25 Apr: os28
- 14 Apr: Death of Default
- 08 Apr: Seven Plus or Minus Two
- 28 Mar: 24-Hour Arcade
- 20 Mar: Honey, We Shrunk the Animals