Mental models represent a very important way to view the way we think. More importantly, models in general represent a very useful way to represent known knowledge. The significance of models might not be obvious, but I’m going to try and paint a picture that will help you understand them as I do. First though, […]
Focusing on a set of projects that consumes most of my time apparently constrains creative thought more than I would expect. It certainly doesn’t eliminate it, but it’s either constrained topically to the projects or constrained to a limited number of cycles. No amount of mental overclocking will make up for just not having the […]
I’ve mentioned Mailhook a few times, but I haven’t spent a lot of time writing about it. Let me introduce it to you properly:
Mailhook is the easiest way to accept email in your web apps.
Using Mailhook, you can receive email directly into your scripts and applications as easy as handling a form post. This […]
I’m going to start openly writing about my project ideas.
For a long time I’ve had a very protective attitude towards my ideas, only sharing them with close friends until there’s a prototype. There’s definitely benefits to talking about ideas to more people early on. You get that feedback loop started much earlier, which not […]
At the last DevHouse, I met somebody else that was interested in systems theory. I recommended him Ackoff’s Best, which he recently got and started writing about on his blog.
I haven’t written about any systems stuff for a while, but I think about it all the time. To me it’s really exciting because it’s one […]
I was actually hit with that blog meme that’s been going around. This sort of thing doesn’t happen very often on here because I usually don’t choose to participate in them. But since this is apparently one of the weird ones where you tag people to carry it on and I was actually tagged, I […]