How Pixish Happened
With some stories, it’s hard to know where to begin. I could start with my obsession with photography and magazines…
View ArticlePaul Graham’s Six Principles for Making New things
I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d)…
View ArticlePixish, Spec Work, and Graggers
This post also appears in Pixish News. During the Jewish holiday of Purim, we tell a story about a dude…
View ArticleWhat’s Your Suggestion?
Critique sessions are rarely about suggesting solutions. In fact, to suggest alternatives would be insulting. It'd be like someone telling Picasso to make all those brush strokes blend in more.
View ArticleDon’t Work for Assholes
I didn't like him, but what did I know? Maybe this is just how the freelance web design business worked. I took the gig. It was, of course, a nightmare.
View ArticleSave the Touchy-Feely for the Redwoods
I was the new guy at the company, I'd just met Allison, and here I was laying my feelings out for her. She probably thought I was nuts. And for good reason. I hadn't earned the right to ask her to care...
View ArticleFertile Medium
Heather and I have been avid Flickr members since the very beginning. So when Yahoo bought them and they started…
View ArticleI’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet
"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." I don't know who said it first, but the line has achieved a kind of supernatural resonance online. And for good reason - it describes a kind...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Know How A Startup Will Make Money, Neither Do They
This, I hope, will remind people that the business plans of the startups they use are, indeed, their business. They should find out how the company is making money now and what their plans are in the...
View ArticleElsewhere: My Review of the New Flickr at TechHive
The new Flickr: Goodbye customers, hello ads Flickr didn’t actually explain itself. It took away a core part of its…
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