Ben Scofield

05 Jul 2014

It’s about a month and a half until my 10th wedding anniversary, and I’ve been reflecting on how I was feeling before I got married. I …

26 Apr 2014

Note: I don’t have any special insight into the business arrangements here; I haven’t been paying as much attention to the comics industry …

16 Feb 2014

I am a strong believer in the value of a good postmortem after a customer-affecting incident — and after internal incidents, and after …

04 Jan 2014

I’m no fan of Nassim Taleb (of black swan, antifragility, and needing-an-editor fame), but I forced myself to finish his last book …

19 Dec 2013

I’ve been using Goodreads reliably this year to track my reading (well, the book and graphic novel portions of my reading). Over the last …

11 Dec 2013

I just listened to the November 21st episode of the Freakonomics podcast , on what economists call “spontaneous order .” It’s an interesting …

20 Sep 2013

Ernie and I are going through many of the same experiences right now, so his post on how interviews are broken resonated with me. In …

13 Sep 2013

I have a problem: every time I open up an application that has a contact list, I find something confusing or frustrating. With Skype, it’s …