Today I read that our bodies now have an extra organ. Obviously, no new organs have snuck into our bodies in the middle of the night. Sometimes what was always there is just classified as an organ now. It's funny to think that you know the human body and then oops, science intervenes, and suddenly you don't. You have a mesentery somewhere in your ( Read more... )

Oh 2014, I am ambivalent about you ( Read more... )

In the last week of 2013, I spoke in front of thousands of people in an enormous room at a hacker conference in Hamburg, Germany, and I learned that my friend had committed suicide, leaving behind his wife and 4-month old child. Speaking at this conference was a personal milestone. I try not to let on that these things go to my head sometimes, but ( Read more... )

I'm usually too busy at the end of the year to do any kind of The Year in Review list. Who has time for poignant reflection when you need to buy several hundred balloons to drop from the ceiling? I'm no good at ticking off my accomplishments, or compiling Best Of lists, or swearing mighty oaths to improve myself in the coming year. Today, hacking ( Read more... )