Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
The last day of April, I decided I didn't want to continue renting an office. Then I stepped outside and saw a perfectly good desk discarded on the sidewalk. So that's what I'm using now. …
The pop-psych explanation goes: It's a disorder if it gets in the way of your life or if it's stopping you from doing things you want to do. Example: "I have a problem: I hate …
I think the only dreams I remember these days are the ones that just shout their subtexts so loud I can't ignore them. Like the one last night where my mom handed me my newborn …
Over the past four weeks I've separately met two people who will probably become friends and who were also at the Jonathan Coulton concert I attended in March at Symphony Space. By the way, yes …
The other day, Leonard and I were brunching with Adi. We got to talking about the little superstitions you make up when you're a kid, like "if the digital clock shows a time that repeats …
Nine new original stories, five new original artworks, and an essay on how and why we did it. Read it online, download the PDF, or (soon) buy the print-on-demand book. Link, download, read, and remix …
Now I'm rereading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash bit by bit. Spoiler ahead: The important thing is, Hiro, that you have to understand the Mafia way. And the Mafia way is that we pursue larger goals …
I reread much of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon a few weeks ago and found this passage: "We're businessmen," Avi says. "We make money. Gold is worth money." "Gold is the corpse of value," says Goto Dengo. …
"Pretend you're in a giant teacup." "Why?!" "You just are." "It's like you have an 'it's complicated' in Facebook with yourself." "You should delicious that tweet - NOOOooooooo....." "Riker's so boring I'm falling asleep just …
"Each week. On This American Scrum. We have a theme. And ask three questions based on that theme. Question One: what did you do yesterday? Question two: what will you do, what do you aim …