December 2020To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought
it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb.What was special about the Airbnbs was how...
NANCY LUBLIN: I went to see Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the theater. Tenth row center, sitting to my left: Donald Trump. Sitting to his left: some skinny...
In the high-stakes world of gaming, support teams face a unique set of challenges. With global player bases across all time zones, dramatic volume spikes during tournaments and launches,...
The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized
I’ve been thinking about the UCSD P-System a lot lately, and I thought I’d write about...
December 2020As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find
that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were actually
the same.The first is about...
Patisseries in ParisOf course you can enjoy exquisitely crafted patisseries all over France, but Paris is home to many of the country’s best pâtissiers,...
Recently, the concept of “the truth” has become elusive. While mistruths, lies, and deceit have been a foundational part of our species’ communication, a...