Author: Connor Tomas O’Brien

Over the past few years, it’s become clear that many web services have been built atop unsustainable business models. We’ve lost Google Reader, Posterous, and dozens of others. These are services that users have spent a lot of their time painstakingly filling with content, expecting that they’ll be around for the long-haul. I’m growing tired…

We’ve always been afraid of the robots. Afraid that one day, somebody will invent the algorithm that will turn our particular life’s work into a machine-readable, endlessly repeatable process. It’s inevitable. The robots always catch up. If your job is to follow a set of rules, you’re doing a robot’s job, and they want what’s…

It’s about a month too late to be making New Year’s Resolutions, but here goes. From now on, I only want to work on big stuff. Important stuff. Stuff that takes guts and daring to get finished. Stuff that could fail badly, but just as likely could (hopefully, hopefully!) succeed beyond my wildest imaginings. The…