An obscure internet conspiracy — now a global cult — is hitting too close to home. — Have you received cryptic messages from friends or family about an upcoming blackout, that you should stock up on food & water, that something big is happening? Are your relatives accusing politicians of running child trafficking rings? If so, you’ve very likely come into contact with the wild and expansive…

How to optimize your work for long-term happiness — Last year I wrote about how I launched six side projects in one year. I won’t lie, it was a rush to ship that many projects in a short space of time. I don’t regret doing it… but did it pay off in the long run? Stay tuned. After last…

Do you ever feel like your work or life doesn’t fit with who you truly are? Most of us do at times, but often it’s a vague cognitive dissonance without anything particularly actionable. Identifying your core values is an essential step towards addressing this vague feeling with actionable data. We…

The web is in an awkward phase right now. We’re transitioning from an era where a website was simply a collection of linked pages to one where even using the term “page” to describe a particular screen is a giant oversimplification. When I first started web development, the job was…

The primary users of Pathwright are the hundreds of thousands of students completing learning steps every day. None of these users pay us. Instead, they pay our customers who are made up of a much smaller group of school administrators, IT directors, and content creators from educational organizations of all…

Last year I set a goal to learn something new each month and ended out launching six new projects which I’ll recap along with what I learned below. Looking back, it seems a little crazy to me that I managed to launch as much as I did while running a…

How to use “creative endorphins” to foster a healthy habit of making — Running often is not a comfortable choice. Yet almost every day, I find myself hitting the trail for a run even though it’s much easier to do practically anything else. One reason I keep doing this is that I’m chasing that “runners high” (a.k.a. endorphins). I’m literally addicted to running…

When I tell people about Pathwright, I often hear a version of “man, my university’s software sucks, we should use yours.” Hating your LMS (Learning Management System) is not an uncommon sentiment. Google “[LMS name] sucks” for pretty much any mainstream LMS, and you’ll find outpourings of ire from students…