April 2013

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“Ambiverts”

@chriscoyier I read your article about intro/extroverts. Have you heard of ambiverts? articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-28/nat… Majority of us are ambiverts. — Andrew Richardson (@AndrewR_Design) April 9, 2013 None of the books I’ve read on introversion seem to use this word. I suspect it is because the study of personality and temperament is complicated. Of course all of […]

Introversion

I recently wrote on The Pastry Box Project about introversion. I’m going to re-post here because I like having owned copies of stuff I write. Everyone knows the words “introvert” and “extrovert”. But I’m surprised at how widespread the misunderstanding of terms is. Many people I talk to, when this subject comes up, still essentially […]

Authentic Startup Gibberish

I’m pretty excited to see Upstream Color. I hope it plays around where I live soon. It’s from Shane Carruth, the creator of Primer, which is amazing. I recently watched Primer again and I noticed something interesting: authentic startup gibberish. I’ll try and explain. At Wufoo, we had a meeting once a week on Friday. […]

Being Wet is the Worst

This article about paying to be kidnapped reminded me about one of my biggest movie pet peeves. First, about the kidnapping: Romeo slapped me hard across the face, much harder than I had been slapped all night. Then he shocked me with a stun gun. Then Cody doused me with cold water, which was the […]