The startup grind is a strange blend of adrenaline and exhaustion, one that can quickly blur the lines between commitment and burnout. In the early stages, there’s an endless list of tasks that demand your attention, and every one feels like it could make or break the company. But over time, you start to see that moving forward sustainably requires more than sheer determination – it demands a…
I'm in the whirlwind again -- and I love it. It's been over two years since the last post on this blog, way overdue. As I hinted in my last post - it was time to start something - and start something I did: Matterbeam ! Founded in 2022, we started a company, raised a seed round, and gathered together an amazing team of 'beamers' . It's been crazy sometimes, with lots of ups and downs, but overall…
One of the hardest parts of the startup process is finding a way to distill all the ideas in your head into a clear, concise, statement that anyone can understand. I've spent several weeks now trying to do this and this is where I'm at right now: Software as a service that actually makes data easy for companies. It's clear and concise but I don't think it really drives home how transformational…
Updating to ios14 (14.0.1) just gave me a painful reminder why I sometimes hate writing code for the web. As part of a fun web app I'm developing I'm including support for stylus input (particularly the Apple Pencil). Using the unified PointerEvent simplified a lot of my code and allowed me to support mouse / touch / stylus fairly easily. So I update to ios14 and suddenly a large number of my…
Disclosure : I have some Tesla shares and I'm long on them. Not long after Steve Jobs had returned to Apple, I saw a commercial for the Titanium Powerbook G4 . I had been using Windows computers and laptops for years, but something about the new laptop spoke to me. I still didn't take the plunge into Apple land for a few years, but the Ti Powerbook led me to start keeping on eye on what Apple was…