This past week I had a chance to work on a conversational UI.  It’s a neat way to interact with software and presents an interesting set of problems to implement. Before even starting to build something I needed to decide on some tools to help with managing the conversations. There are a small number of…

This book is currently on sale for just $3 and it’s a hell of a deal.  I picked this up after hearing it referenced from several different groups of people in the span of a week, enough to make me curious. “The obstacle is the way” presents an argument that much of what prevents us from…

At the beginning of the year I, like many other people, set some goals for the year.  I also took the step of putting a reminder in my calendar to revisit my goals list every month to assess my progress. After a couple of cycles of that I recognized the pattern, I had inadvertently applied a…