A Smart Bear: On Miscellaneous

Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine. —September 2024 | 1,300 words.

Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you’d think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies. —February 2011 | 2,000 words.

You redesign your entire website, customers and employees say it’s better, but none of the metrics change… Does design even matter? —June 2011 | 1,300 words.

Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work? —January 2011 | 1,900 words.

What marks the moment when you become a “real” company? —April 2007 | 700 words.

A simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, preserving the “happened-before” relation in almost all cases. —February 2019 | 3,100 words.

An ode to validated learning. —September 2011 | 200 words.

I regret to inform you… —June 2009 | 1,100 words.

When you know the rules, then you can break the rules. —December 2008 | 700 words.

How my hesitation on SmartBear.com led to a $2000 expense. A lesson in acting fast. —January 2007 | 500 words.