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Many apps get deleted. How can you make sure your app doesn’t get deleted? This essay shares patterns and antipatterns for product design - Notice how many the apps on your phone don’t get used. 80% of the apps on your phone get used less than once per week This is why I absolutely love it when I can delete phone apps. Minimizing the amount of apps I have on the iOS home screen...

A Six Month Experiment - Haley and I have been using Slack as a primary way to communicate in the past 6 months, and its been an authenticity and delight creating relationship hack. via giphy Problem: Getting in sync was hard Before Slack, my girlfriend and I used a combination of iMessage / SMS and...

Actionable knowledge from my journey to join a Goenka meditation workshop - I recently joined a 10 day meditation workshop after procrastinating for years, despite “knowing” of meditation’s benefits. Every one’s path to meditation is different. This article is my [meanering] story to deepen my practice and how I came to join a workshop. I am sharing my story so that others...

The 24 books that I recommend to software developers - Learning software development is a fundamental skill in today’s world. I hoped to share a list of books for understanding and growing in software development. I have shared parts of this list with team members who join my team or who I mentor. I grouped these books by area of...

How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing - This article compiles resources on how Slack solved problems using tracing. I’ve given this talk a few times and hoped to share references and links for folk to get started in this space. 💡 Abstract Traditional monitoring tools like logs and metrics were necessary but not sufficient to debug how...