Simple Makes [Life, Software, Everything] Better.
Simple Makes [Life, Software, Everything] Better.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist, former Google executive, and founder of the Ness Labs newsletter has a new book, Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World, and her ideas around ditching goals and focusing on experiments is really interesting. Could you do something like this in your life?
Nobody ever asks about the harder part of retirement: what do you do with yourself? The Minimalists have a five-value foundational framework that make a life feel full and meaningful and retirement needs these same things: health, relationships, creativity, growth, and contribution.
I’ve recently realized that all of the things I’ve found most worth doing, I’ve accomplished by showing up every, single day. My daily habits have led me to write a book, become fluent in new languages, and retire at 41. I blink and suddenly I hit huge life goals. You have to love the power of the daily habit.
I’m writing this on Sunday, March 8, 2026, when most of us woke up with that sinking feeling that only Daylight Saving Time (DST) can bring: we lost another hour of our lives. Let me walk you through the history of how we got here, what’s been done to try to fix it, and why ending this practice once and for all would be genuinely good for all of us.
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull has been on my reading list for an embarrassingly long time. It’s one of those books that everyone in both the creative and tech worlds raves about, and I finally made time to read it. Despite its length and age, it is a refreshing view of management and the parallels between how Pixar works and how software is built are uncanny.