This job makes me realize how much I care about good user experience, and how it is so sorely lacking in pretty much all enterprise software.

China’s New Quantum Satellite May Hold the Key To Hack-Proof Communications
If it works, the idea of transmitting keys bypassing space-time is going to be pretty amazing.

It’s a perfect day that smells like fall for the first time. I am delirious with caffeine and sleep-deprivation. L turned one today. I also just got a new niece. Everyone is very nice to me, even people in the snobbish and ridiculously expensive flower shop. It’s a pretty perfect day.
The Management Myth
What I was thinking all along

When perky men in suits today will talk about fund admins, prime brokers, ledgers, p&l, and net asset value calculations, I will be thinking of what it is like to put face on a cool pillow and dream of cicadas and golden light.
Why oh why must you wake up so much and so early?
2am, 4am and now, for good, at 5:50
Why can’t I get some sleep?
Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories Than Americans – The Atlantic
Can’t put that nytimes cover photo of a Syrian boy from Russian / Assad airstrike out from my mind.
It comes back every time I look at L or hold him.
There are things that you can only see and smell and hear if you wake up at 6am on Sunday mornings
found some photos from earlier this year from a place that was special





