Archive - Brendan's Blog

Twinkle, twinkle

Quick: What’s the acronym for using a fire extinguisher correctly?

22 hrs ago •

Forged credibility

Something I’ve discovered: Whenever a person or company feels the need to announce that they've won an award or say that other people have said nice…

Aug 21 •

Betting on bots

Jotform’s built the infrastructure to make a fortune by helping automating customer service.

Aug 19 •

Not long ago, I worked as an SEO

That typically meant writing blogs with the right keywords (and the right amount of keywords) about who knows what–taken mainly from stuff I read on the…

Aug 18 •

You’re missing out

Given the endless tirade of choices we have, you’re absolutely, positively, guaranteed to miss out on something.

Aug 16 •

Technical sophistication

Michael Hartl, author of the uber-popular Learn Enough to Be Dangerous web development tutorials has a word for the ability to figure out how to solve…

Aug 15 •

Measuring impact

Steve Jobs and Tony Fadell built a product that over a billion people use every day.

Aug 14 •

July 2025

Running a business is a lot like captaining a ship.

Jul 30 •

June 2025

Comfortable problems

I just finished reading Michael Easter’s book, The Comfort Crisis, which is a great read even if you’re not an extreme adventurer or fitness enthusiast…

Jun 8 •

Outdated assessments

Teachers go to wild lengths to stop students from cheating—even making them install surveillance software (malware) that locks their browser and…

Jun 6 •

April 2025

Ten years from now...

Apr 25 •

It's like magic, but with a lot of clever engineering

I spent last week perusing Mozilla’s MDN Web Docs learning about how the web actually works.

Apr 24 •

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