Restaurants have never been a great business and have a very high rate of failure. Few own the real-estate they exist in, which means they have extremely high fixed long-term costs (rent, etc.) but a ...Read More
If a number of companies follow Twitter's lead and start allowing full-time work from home indefinitely, a whole lot of neighborhoods will suffer major losses....Read More
Every day when I walked into my old office I’d pass a couple dozen people waiting in the lobby for their assigned interviewers to come down and take them up to a conference room where they’...Read More
The impact of so many people working remotely for so long is going to have it's impact. There are some things that we've already found to be wastes of time and money, that will never go back to "the w...Read More
In 1945, some still expected the world to go back to familiar pre-crisis reality. They would be disappointed, as will those who are waiting for "the good old days" today....Read More
If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever "we're part of the same group, you can trust me," then you know you can't. Honest players don't need to resort to that....Read More
A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a software service. As big as it was, I doubt any...Read More
In January, I packed up and shipped everything I wanted to keep, got in the car with Flash, and drove to Seattle. I arrived on January 19th, checked in to my temporary apartment, and started work on ...Read More
When I wrapped up 2018 just ahead of my move, I had a notion that it might be a while before I posted again. I didn’t think it would be this long. Multiple things got in the way. My hosting serv...Read More