(How could I not title this post after one of my favorite David Byrne songs?) Gus has a terrific post on his blog about what he calls "the wilderness" - a period of time between major software releases "where I'm pretty lost, and I don't know what to do." His working...
For years I've used on-hold "waiting" contexts named after coworkers and family members to denote tasks that I've assigned to other people and am waiting on them to finish. But a few weeks ago I had a realization that there are two other types of relationships between tasks and people...
I've always gone with portability and sleekness over outright power and versatility. I bought an 11" MacBook Air the day they came out. I switched to an iPad Mini from the bulky third generation iPad. I walk around with a slim wallet. I keep my iPhone naked in my pocket...
I'm probably not going to say anything new. But I wanted to put down on paper my system for staying on top of email since I so often see people with overflowing inboxes. And I'm not trying to specifically call out anyone I've worked with in the past with an...
When I started selling my first Mac app in 2007, there was no App Store. I don't even think "app" was a word. And there certainly wasn't any ready-made infrastructure for selling software online that you could simply plug into. That meant, like every other independent developer, I had to...
