If you’re in tech and wanna talk to one of the kindest, smartest folks I know, you can sign up for [Brian’s] office hours here. I just did.

This now page covers the things I’m thinking, feeling, and working on, well, right now.

I’ve been thinking about this for days and all I’ve come up with is Theory, Brooklyn Denim, and Uniqlo.— mb (@mb) July 14, 2019

He talk about the deaths of his wife and daughter, and how “the best move on the board” is often figuring out how to spend more time with those you love and finding the balance between work and the life you want to live. I’m getting choked up just writing about it.

The people that worked inside an organization are the ones that can explain and critique it with the most insight. They also tend to be more emotionally invested in the company’s success. I plan to continue criticizing (and praising) the organizations I’ve worked for, and I hope others do the same. Of course they did, but just because people ask for something doesn’t mean we should build it. Experimentation is something you can do internally, via user testing, in private betas, or on whiteboards. Experiments don’t have revenue goals, and usually don’t require full-time engineers working for months. Experiments don’t have splashy launches and email campaigns to hundreds of thousands of users. Would I have criticized this publicly if it was just an experiment? Absolutely not.

Many managers think a lot about how they treat their team, but few have a philosophy about those that leave it.

“Two questions. Respond in the poll for #1 and in replies for #2. 1. Do you get stressed out at work? 2. What makes that stress go away?”

“It’s really amazing that anyone feels comfortable sharing their unfinished work with me to critique. Totally honored.”

“Critique because you care.”

Make friends, make love, make lots of things. Make something great. Because that is what will make you happy for the rest of your life. I don’t think it’s luck. I work insanely hard, all the time.

Just remember: most people want to meet you as much as you want to meet them, especially in social situations like this. No one would prefer to stand there and stare at their phone when there are tons of fascinating people around.

A talk at the Difficult to Name reading series about the disappearing web and what we can do to stop it.

“I also sketched an app called Broadway in 2009, which became the first iOS app we ever wrote at @lickability, when it was just me and @bcapps as high-schoolers. https://t.co/xBHwasiXjz”

80. Poetry. Like this by e. e. cummings. pic.twitter.com/MXinHotAIF— mb (@mb) November 22, 2018

“So, iOS nerds: People often ask me for the best resources to learn iOS development and my list is out of date and in need of a refresh. What links, videos, books, courses, apps, etc. do you send to people who want to learn how to write iOS apps?”

CocoaLove focuses on talks which don’t deprecate as soon as you leave. In 2015, Matt gave this talk. Matt lead teams that make software at Tumblr, and makes software himself with his partners at Lickability. His talk was about why you might want to step away from the keyboard and into leadership, and what happens when you do. It’s about the difference between managing programs and managing people.

You’ve been there. You’re sitting in a meeting and your boss, a product manager, or an executive is talking about Q2 goals. They’re laying out a roadmap of the features that are going to be “coming down the pike”. All of a sudden you see it.

Great code reads like great prose. It is succinct, expressive, and clear the first time you read it.