Popular Articles
Business
✪ On the pricing of service work.
How we approach the issue of pricing our web design and development work at Makalu Interactive.
✪ Why we do not sign NDAs at Makalu.
We’re looking for the right kind of client.
✪ Unintended consequences.
The unexpected benefits of not winning the 37signals blog redesign bid.
✪ The story of RaceSplitter.
Our first product at Makalu was an iPhone app called RaceSplitter. The story of how it happened was featured on the popular blog at 37signals.
Finance
✪ An overview of personal investment.
An introduction to the various aspects of personal investment.
✪ Financial Independence.
What it is, and how to achieve it.
✪ Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio.
Is there such a thing as a permanent portfolio, that provides protection and growth, and doesn’t need modification over time?
✪ The Big Short.
A brief summary of the 2008 financial collapse.
Personal
✪ The Paleo Diet.
In 2010, having done an extensive survey of the scientific literature, I changed to the “Paleo Diet”. This is the story of how it proved transformative in my life.
✪ Getting Things Done.
An 2011 update to my 2004 popular article, describing my system for “Getting Things Done”, based on OmniFocus, Task Paper, and a weekly planning process.
Geek
✪ MacOS X Backup Strategies.
I wrote a very popular article in 2005, and then wrote a more recent version in 2010 about my Macintosh-based data backup strategies.
Miscellaneous
✪ Problems with Telefonica, Spain.
Probably the most popular article I’ve ever written, was about problems with Telefonica, the Spanish telephone provide. This turned out to be unfortunate, as some people have actually thought that I am Telefonica.
✪ Frozen beer
An article about frozen beer, somehow became popular, and at one point was the first listing on a google search for ‘frozen beer.’
