My friend Tom Harrington from Atomic Bird Software is celebrating his company’s 5-year anniversary in a pretty novel way. 5 Years? Every 5th order is FREE! I love this idea. OK, I confess, I helped come up with it. But I still love it, and you should too. If you’re a customer it’s in your […]

Gus Mueller, when writing about his journey toward indiedom, introduced a useful mantra for those of us trying to succeed in this business: “What Would Panic Do?” When faced with a question you haven’t answered before, whether it be with how to design a new UI, or how to respond to customers, just ask yourself […]

Consider the trajectories of our careers. Most of us were committed to and already pretty good at whatever it is we do, by the time we were 20 years old or so. So much destiny determined so early on. In the few short years between gaining consciousness and moving out of the house, you evaluated […]

I’ve been telling anybody who will listen, since even before I acquired MarsEdit, that if you want to be a significant member of the Mac developer community, you need to have a blog. In fact, you need a blog even if you’re not a Mac developer. It’s good for your business, it’s good for your […]