We need better ways to gauge which ideas are worth pursuing, better methods for eliminating ideas and better metrics for validating them in the market. Remember Project Briefs? The project brief is law. In my early career, that’s what I had been told. If a brief came across my desk that was unclear…

Artificial intelligence, specifically language models such as ChatGPT, has the potential to revolutionize the way in which user experience (UX) designers conduct research, design interfaces, and write microcopy. Spoiler Alert: This was written by chatGPT and the accompanying image was created by Stable Diffusion. AI is finally starting to make…

That’s 6000+ days of my life dedicated to working for one company. My previously longest-held job before that was a year and a half, just for some perspective. This story is going to be a bit lengthy and I’m not trying to write a tomb of a post about it…

I came across a post the other day where someone was surprised that you could put JavaScript into a bookmark and run it from on any page. They even asked what to call that type of thing. I was surprised. They’re called bookmarklets and they’ve saved me on numerous occasions. …

When I got word that the FDA had approved and were starting to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, I should have been a little happier about it — people are dying, struggling to pay their bills, and/or dealing with mental health. I hope this vaccine will help prevent the deaths of…

I’ve never worked in sales, so I’ve never had to cold-call anyone before. Being on the other side of a telemarketer phone call, I had a perception of how terrible those people are and questioned how that strategy ever worked — except for scamming old people. I was never going…

Nearly 15 years ago I attempted to buy a used car thinking it would be a quick trip to setup a monthly payment and walk out with an inexpensive car that might last me a couple years. …

This post originally appeared on borkdoy.com (ipfs). Go check me out there. This is my obligatory coronavirus update. I’ve been working from home due to the coronavirus, and yesterday my governer put NJ on lockdown. I think I’m on day 7 of socially distancing from the rest of you all…

Now that I have a couple weeks of arduino experience, I was tasked to create a physical device that took inspiration from my earlier work on the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom game that I made using p5.js. Given that I have such little experience with an arduino so far and…