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Richard Rorty was an analytic philosopher so the rest of us don’t have to be. The bulk of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, his most well-known book, is spent running through a sampling of major problems within the tradition — in the dry manner characteristic...

Once a technology becomes ubiquitous, it ceases to be experienced as merely “technology”. It is now a part of culture. Technology only exists as technology when we are forced to deal with an incomplete or buggy implementation — when the thingness of...

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. —Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Finally got around to reading Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham. (Wondering if it’s unfashionable...

The importance of integration between roles on a product team can be seen by what happens in its absence. People will gravitate toward tasks they can complete without leaving the domain they own. Developers will refactor low-value parts of the codebase...

The problem with computers is that they exist too exclusively in the electronic domain: what you need is a transitional area round the edge. —Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices A weekend in the woods, some of it spent reading Eno, has me thinking...