The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. — Albert Einstein When we were starting off in philanthropy, my wife Cari did a listening tour to try to shape our strategy. We were trying to learn some basic principles about choosing cause areas and...

You should refuse to develop what you don’t understand

Understanding is key to building quality software. Here are 3 levels of understanding we should go through before we start coding. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve had the position of a team lead/manager/dev lead, call this what you want, but I’m essentially in charge of a module as...

I’d like to take you on a journey back in time, precisely 15 years ago, when my journey into software development began. As a younger me, armed with nothing but curiosity, I was introduced to the html and css. In the beginning, it was all about figuring out the...

Naming, but not in the way you think. Our knowledge represents a minute portion of reality. Names are the visible portion of that knowledge. Phil Karlton once said, “there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” One is a real problem; the other is...