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The Museum of Pop Culture is a Frank Gehry-designed architectural grotesque situated on the edge of Seattle Center. While I do love some of Gehry's buildings — the Guggenheim Bilbao or the Dancing House in Prague are beautiful, for instance — The Museum of Pop Culture, however, is not a design that is universally beloved. Supposedly the building is supposed to evoke the image of a smashed guitar à…
When I walked into the waiting room of Wildseed, the company I would spend the next 3 years at, there were two posters on the wall: one poster of Matchbox 20, and one of the album cover of Radiohead's OK Computer . At some point I did have to ask one of my new coworkers: didn't they know the album OK Computer is a screed against technology and capitalist consumerism? "No," the person responded. "I…
Aside from one paper route in middle school and a summer spent at a now-defunct retain chain, I've always had a job that has involved writing code. I don't consider this worthy of praise: I'm just lucky I suppose. I fell into my passion for coding and happened to go to one of the best computer science schools in the country. It's funny how some things work out. The coding-and-building-things part…
I don't consider myself a thought leader. I much prefer doing things than writing about doing things, and I'm loath to offer any advice without understanding someone's particular circumstance. I try to live by the rules to not offer any advice unless asked, and never give advice with the assumption that it will be taken. Aside from making the occasional snarky remarks on LinkedIn, I've been…