When I was a little boy in Switzerland, maybe 5 or 6 years old, my dad took me to visit the studio of a well known local artist. Her name was Ursula Schneider (no relation), and I remember being impressed and excited after meeting her. She was a ceramic ar...

I worked for a distributed company with hundreds of remote workers around the world for 10 years. The question I was consistently asked the most from people outside the company, especially in the beginning: "How do you make sure people are working instead ...

Popular posts from over the years: - Five Reasons Why Your Company Should Be Distributed: A pitch for why distributed, or remote, teams are great. - The Perfect Startup: Can a large company be as fun as a startup? - When A Company Grows But The Office Shri...

Some of these quarantine home videos are delightful and remind me of the early days of the internet when people didn't care so much about looking professional or monetizing their content: https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1239523796542992387 https://tw...

It's been a while since I've gotten excited by a gadget, but I'm really enjoying these Bose Frames I got a few days ago. They look and feel like regular sunglasses, same weight, nice enough materials, and the feeling of using headphones by simply slipping ...

People in startups often talk about how much fun it was during the early days, when everyone was on the same page and things moved quickly. Can the speed and simplicity of that early, perfect-startup moment be retained as companies grow? [caption id="attac...

I was recently asked for neighborhood tips by someone who is moving to SF. Here are some of my favorite San Francisco spots - beautiful, livable streets near parks and good restaurants: Cole Valley, Belvedere St: Telegraph Hill, Filbert Steps: Bernal Heigh...