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I use the Wayback Machine quite a bit. Here's what WordPress.com looked like way back when we first started working on it. The Wayback Machine is part of the Internet Archive which I got to visit toda…

Jan 13·1 min read·146 words

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Happy Birthday Matt!

Jan 12·1 min read·6 words

Old Car Racing Photos

My niece is scanning old family slides and discovered a stash of cool old car racing photos that my dad must have taken sometime in the 1960s in Switzerland:

Jan 26·1 min read·62 words

A childhood memory, revisited

When I was a little boy in Switzerland, maybe 5 or 6 years old, my dad took me to visit the studio of a well known local artist. Her name was Ursula Schneider (no relation), and I remember being impre…

Dec 1·1 min read·192 words

Are your remote team members goofing off?

I worked for a distributed company with hundreds of remote workers around the world for 10 years. The question I was consistently asked the most from people outside the company, especially in the begi…

Jul 30·3 min read·599 words

Welcome

Popular posts from over the years: - Five Reasons Why Your Company Should Be Distributed: A pitch for why distributed, or remote, teams are great. - The Perfect Startup: Can a large company be as fun …

Jun 1·1 min read·199 words

Making the internet weird again

Some of these quarantine home videos are delightful and remind me of the early days of the internet when people didn't care so much about looking professional or monetizing their content: https://twit…

Mar 28·1 min read·80 words

Bose Frames

It's been a while since I've gotten excited by a gadget, but I'm really enjoying these Bose Frames I got a few days ago. They look and feel like regular sunglasses, same weight, nice enough materials,…

Jan 11·1 min read·192 words

The Perfect Startup

People in startups often talk about how much fun it was during the early days, when everyone was on the same page and things moved quickly. Can the speed and simplicity of that early, perfect-startup …

May 14·6 min read·1102 words

Magical streets in San Francisco

I was recently asked for neighborhood tips by someone who is moving to SF. Here are some of my favorite San Francisco spots - beautiful, livable streets near parks and good restaurants: Cole Valley, B…

Apr 14·1 min read·120 words