I've expressed my admiration for Paul Graham a number of times already in this young blog. He's a successful entrepreneur, investor, innovator, writer, philosopher, language designer, and hacker. Most people would be happy to be as good at one … [Read more]
Workaholics Are Just Busy Having Fun
Once you've read a little of Seth Godin, you feel like anything new he writes is something you could have written. There are just two problems: You didn't write it You're not Seth Godin Here's my latest "I'm not Seth Godin so all I can do … [Read more]
Responses to Lisp: The Golden Age
I'm overwhelmed at the response to my recent article about Lisp: The Golden Age Isn\'t Coming Back, Let\'s Welcome a Bright Future! It clearly shows my blogging virginity that I'm excited about 4,000 page views, but that doesn't make me any less … [Read more]
Blogging Strategy, Social News Stats
Jeff Atwood gave the best possible advice for people who want to make a successful blog: When people ask me for advice on blogging, I always respond with yet another form of the same advice: pick a schedule you can live with, and stick to it. Until … [Read more]
World’s Best Primer on Energy Competitiveness
This has been in my writing queue for over a month. As part of my resolution to write more, I thought the easiest place to start would be to flesh out the ideas that I've already scribbled down. It doesn't take an economics professor or a … [Read more]
Lisp: The Golden Age Isn’t Coming Back, Let’s Welcome a Bright Future
I am a fairly new member of the Lisp community, so new that most people have never heard of me. I'm one of the young programmers that have read the excellent writing from Paul Graham, Raganwald, and Steve Yegge and decided to try Lisp out for … [Read more]
Technology Decisions – Where to Invest Your Brainpower
(note: inspired by this post at SecretGeek) (note #2: SecretGeek found this fantastic post by the greatly missed Kathy Sierra) Anyone who spends 5 minutes reading technology news sites knows that there is FAR too much for any one person to … [Read more]
From Stagnant to Scholar to Startupper
One of my problems with blogging (and honestly, just about everything I do) is that I have a big, grandiose vision of what I want as an end result. Then, when I start to work on it, I directly extrapolate the time my first few steps take over the … [Read more]
Top Story of 2007 – Kathy Sierra
With that time of the year where people mail in easy posts summarizing the "Top 10 Posts I've Written" or their "5 New Years Resolutions", there's been something conspicuously absent from reflections on 2007. Kathy Sierra, one of the best bloggers … [Read more]
Updated Lisp Companies Page
Now that Christmas is over, I got a chance to update my Lisp Companies page. First of all, I want to thank all of the people that emailed me - I got a couple dozen recommendations and added a lot of companies to the list. The updated list is sorted … [Read more]