Betterment

Define what good looks like in engineering teams. Learn how clear standards, templates, and automation reduce ambiguity and scale execution quality.

Nobody signs up for monotony. It just… happens. One. Habit. At. A. Time. The same dark roast, one splash of milk, lukewarm by the second sip. The same playlist titled “Workout Jams” at the gym. The…

So you want to be a millionaire. Easy. Just put $X dollars a day into a low-cost index fund. Repeat every day for a few decades. That’s it. Seriously.

Explore 1100+ failed startups and learn from $40B+ in burned venture capital. Discover why they failed, their market potential, and how to rebuild them with today's tech

Don’t let the curse of the blinking cursor make you succumb to the synthetic machine. The God of Lies ™ confabulates nouns, verbs, and adjectives with statistical precision. Words mean things and humans imbue them with meaning. Writing is the evil twin of thinking.

On Cormac McCarthy, John Grady Cole, and what it means to practice a craft while the world moves on without you.

Rewriting notes isn’t wasted effort or a mere maintenance task. It is itself part of writing-to-think, with the goal to improve clarity of thought. Separate this from writing-to-communicate to avoid self-censorship. These are different mental modes.

Focus on ideas, and how to develop them, so that not only your notes become good, but you become more skilled at knowledge cultivation.

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

It’s difficult to write directions. A user interface, a map or a recipe all require empathy. That’s because the person writing it knows something the reader doesn’t. In fact, that…

1960 article by theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Eugene Wigner

In 1871, George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Davis) published “Middlemarch" an 800-page masterpiece about a young woman whose grand plans all fell apart.

There’s a sharp little French slang word, “Bobo.” It’s short for “Bourgeoise Boheme” i.e the lifestyle that combines both the sexy “bohemian” bit about

There’s a phenomenon you’ll see a lot of on Instagram: a talented artist posting a video of herself working on a magnificent piece she’s been hammering

Our cultural fabric is unraveling before our very eyes. The question is: what is it that keeps a culture together in the first place? Strong cultures

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"Stoicism is a philosophy of life that suggests that the best way to live a human life is to ask yourself what kind of a living organism human beings are."

The temporality of implementation uncertainty in software

What would you work on if doing the work felt easy?

The Seahawks have adopted several nicknames and slogans this year. Consider this your glossary for MOB Ties, EAT, the Dark Side and more.

Friction is not a friend. Friction is either an enemy or a beneficial evil. Don’t commit the Friction Fallacy! Set up your Zettelkasten so that it runs smoothly for the rest of your life.

Even though yeast is far more reliable than it used to be, many bakers still proof it before investing the time and materials to bake a loaf of bread. The extra few minutes waiting for it to bloom …

Are entrepreneurs professionals? In professional fields, like law, medicine or accounting, it’s expected that you’ve done the reading. A professional has seen what has come before, unde…

It’s a new year, which means people everywhere are making resolutions about what they’re going to add to their lives. More exercise. New routines. A fresh system that will finally get everything they’ve got going on dialed in. There’s nothing wrong with trying to add good things to your life. But there’s another, often more […]

In a world where AI can generate the solution to many problems, human creativity may depend on finding the right problems to solve.

Every year, on the first weekend of the year, it’s probably worth replacing the dried spices in your pantry. The best, freshest spices still taste like the spice that’s on the label, bu…