Articles tagged with "personal"

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• That Time I Interviewed Pat Gelsinger for a Bit

  How to make a proto-Fortune-500 CEO the butt of a joke.

  3 August 2024 · about a 4 minute read

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• Anchor's Away

  Saying goodbye to Anchor Brewing

  12 July 2023 · about a 3 minute read

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• What Brown M&M's Taught Me About Software

  Not all software experience is programming.

  17 January 2022 · about a 4 minute read

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• History of The Big Pencil

  Whenever someone asks me about the bigpencil.net domain, I get to tell this story.

  21 March 2021 · under 1 minute to read

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• The Name Game

  My contribution to this 'what you call me' meme from 2020.

  22 November 2020 · under 1 minute to read

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• COVID-19-Inspired Meal Planning

  How I experimented to make weekly meal planning work well for our family.

  24 September 2020 · about a 5 minute read

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• Foo Fighters 1995

  My Foo Fighters Tweets.

  15 September 2020 · about a 2 minute read

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• Goodbye Chris Cornell

  Remembering my Soundgarden encounter.

  18 May 2017 · about a 1 minute read

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• Goodbye Jonathan Demme

  Remembering how Jonathan Demme made me a Talking Heads fan.

  26 April 2017 · under 1 minute to read

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• How One Funny Email Almost Changed My Career

  How to write a goodbye email that people remember for years.

  6 October 2016 · about a 2 minute read

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• Bose Customer Service

  SPOILER ALERT: Sometimes big companies don't suck.

  21 April 2011 · about a 2 minute read

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• Kids & Teachable Moments

  In which my son learns about lost luggage.

  24 March 2011 · about a 2 minute read