Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Last-Minute Lunch
On the way back from my Monday morning meeting, I was pulled into the Rainbow to pick up a baguette, some cheese, and salami. Yes, one of my favorite lunches – but why now, why today? Turns out, I had a very important, last-minute lunch meeting:
Wobble more.
“So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any …
Beware of Geeks Bearing Platforms
“Building on top of someone elses (Apple’s) platform is getting scarier and scarier. They are constantly making sweeping changes that effect our bottom line and provide no transparency, or analytics of almost any kinds, for devs. If I didn’t know better I’d say apple hates devs and thinks of us only as a necessary evil… …
Get Comfortable
“We tend to massively underestimate the compounding returns of intelligence. As humans, we need to solve big problems. If you graduate Stanford at 22 and Google recruits you, you’ll work a 9-to-5. It’s probably more like an 11-to-3 in terms of hard work. They’ll pay well. It’s relaxing. But what they are actually doing is …
Stunned dot us
“It’s not about “innovation in America” or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we’re all too stunned to figure out what’s next” – Alexis Madrigal
Facebook and CraigsList Feel the Same
Video of the Tech Burnout Discussion I Led @ Minnebar 2012
From an audience-engagement perspective – this was one of my favorite MinneBar sessions ever. Thanks to all that shared their burnout experiences. More info in the MinneBar Wiki: 410 Gone: A Discussion of Burnout, Depression, and Finding Happiness in the Technical World
To Do: Figure out why I’m here
“After a couple of discussions like that, I realized that he was saying was that I should think about whether that was really the most valuable thing I could be doing … it would be more useful to think about what high-impact things I could do that no one else was doing.” – Michael Abrash
We’re Not Ourselves
thanks to nazgulnsarsil for inspiring the comic.