Why Async Communication Beats Meetings (Almost Always)
Most meetings are waste disguised as work. The information could have been an email. Teams that default to async outperform teams that fill calendars with meetings....
The Slack Trap: When Communication Tools Kill Productivity
Slack users spend 1 hour 42 minutes daily on the platform. Power users hit 3.1 hours. The communication tool designed to save time became the biggest drain on it....
Those Old Programming Books
Dog-eared, coffee-stained, held together by stubbornness and nostalgia. The programming books from the late 1970s that started a 45-year journey in technology....
Remote Work Made Us Worse
Remote work traded visible costs for invisible ones. Knowledge transfer, mentorship, and collaboration all suffered....
FidoNet: The Internet Before the Internet
FidoNet was a global network connecting thousands of BBSs via scheduled phone calls. Email, newsgroups, file distribution - everything we associate with the internet existed first on FidoNet....
I Solved Spam in the 90s (Nobody Cared)
In the 1990s, I built RUM (Real User Mail) - a challenge-response system to fight spam. It worked. I never released it. Years later, the industry reinvented it....
What BBS Culture Taught Us That Silicon Valley Forgot
1980s BBS culture created authentic communities through sysop relationships and local control. Taiwan's PTT still has 1.5M active users. First-person perspective from a former SysOp....
Why ICQ Died: Lessons From the First Instant Messenger
ICQ invented instant messaging and reached 100 million users. Then it died through corporate neglect, software bloat, and missed mobile transition. Every messaging platform today faces the same forces...
Your Board Doesn't Understand Technology
Most boards lack technical expertise to evaluate software companies. The abstraction gap, misaligned time horizons, and translation problems create systematic misunderstanding that leads to bad decisi...
The Death of the Technical Blog Post
Technical blog posts were searchable, skimmable, and copy-pasteable. Video tutorials are none of these. The shift happened for economic reasons, not educational ones....