You know how when you start seeing a theme in one area of life, it starts popping up everywhere? That’s happened this week with success through iteration – the faster the better. Depth-wise, I’m excited because there’s a lot more than a single post’s worth of thoughts. So for today... [Read More]

Ah yes, the actual Ditch Day announcement. I hope you’re reading these posts in order and have had to wait a bit for this one.  The atmosphere of unspoken sentiment that pervades the dining hall: “Get to the announcements! We know they’re coming. Between the hint-hint wink-wink emails, the periodic... [Read More]

Continuing yesterday’s thoughts - the iPhone is another great example of the trend of technology towards being beautiful, convenient black boxes that work wonderfully until they don’t.  It is quite literally a black box capable of wondrous things. However, it’s extremely difficult for most people to get it to do... [Read More]

This post brought to you by my bathroom at work. Ok, not literally. Nor did I write this in the bathroom, but two separate plumbing malfunctions both perfectly illustrate something that I’ve been thinking about a lot. One of the urinals (of the extremely convenient, sensing and electronically controlled variety)... [Read More]

Today I used Cornell’s online purchasing system for the first time. If you needed more evidence that modern universities should be categorized among the hallowed ranks of bloated bureaucracies, look no further. Let’s quickly get past the fact that it took me a good 45 minutes to make a purchase... [Read More]