A Personal Transformation
The last few years have been the hardest of my professional life. The entire world I grew up in — one of software development and sales — had transformed into something completely different. I realized...
View ArticleA Baby Is Born
On Wednesday morning I loaded a new version of Equals, entered in a very simple equation (a=b+c) and defined each of its variables, entered a value for ‘b’, a value for ‘c’ and, when autocalc took hold...
View ArticleWhat If Apple Is Actually Better Without Steve Jobs?
Last one, I promise, on Apple and its worldwide developer conference. This one, though, from Ben Thompson was too good to pass up: What is critical to understand about Steve Jobs’ Apple was how much it...
View ArticleApple Doesn’t Have To Do Jack Shit
Look, I sympathize. I am one of you. I too rushed to ship an app to the App Store in 2008. I too have ridden the ups and downs of the Store. I too have a vaguely successful app if “vaguely successful”...
View ArticleDeath To Calculators: A Personal Journey Trying To Disrupt Math Education
Every year when school starts some influential newspaper writes an article about how hardware calculators persist and why they are favorable in the classroom even though they cost as much as a...
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