Now that the SXSW high has worn off, I look back at what I saw, and the resulting side projects.

Malcom Gladwell said it took 10 years, or 10,000 hours to achieve expertise. How would the Pareto Principle apply to this assertion?

One of my goals for 2013 is to "show up and do the work". What exactly does that mean?

Its a new year, and time to look back on the last year to see what I can learn for the next.

I have just finished the 6 week course from edX, "Foundations of Computer Graphics". In this post I give my feedback on the experience and share some tips for people who are planning on running through it in March, 2013

The taste that gets you into a passion can also cause you to abandon it, if youre not aware of the gap between what you like and what you make

I have long had dreams of writing my own game, and the success of Minecraft and other indie hits has ignited that passion again. While Im learning, I plan on blogging my progress at a new site, Confirmed Crit

Following initiatives from Stanford, MIT and several new startups follow suit and open up university level college for free.

A brief review of my life in 2011, and some plans for 2012.

Concentrating on things that suck in your life can help you solve meaningful problems.

A beatiful short film and an insightful Hacker News comment resonated with me enough to inspire me to share it here.

Don't use Ruby keywords as model properties in Rails. Bad things will happen.

Another online blog post has me thinking about products vs. platforms, this time in regards to games. I guess this makes a complete circle with my previous post?

The tenuous link between technology business strategy and role playing games. I'm serious.

Everytime I try to write a new blog post, I think to myself "why am I even bothering?" This post explores that thought a little.

Unhappy with the usual Wordpress flow, I've upgraded my website to run on Jekyll, a Ruby based static blog generator.

One of the most annoying parts of my day-to-day life is the need to manually connect to my work's VPN. I've finally found a way to automatically connect my VPN on startup, making my day start without annoyance!