The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know… — Jon Evans Better Copy Share Image
I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've… — Jon Evans Done Copy Share Image
“Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.” — Jon Evans Humor Copy Share Image
Every time you log in to Facebook, every time you click on your News Feed, every time you Like a photo, every… — Jon Evans Behavior Copy Share Image
In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences. — Jon Evans Differences Copy Share Image
To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community,… — Jon Evans Business Copy Share Image
I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do… — Jon Evans Done Copy Share Image
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society… — Jon Evans Abuse Copy Share Image
It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected. — Jon Evans Data Copy Share Image
“The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that… — Jon Evans Gardening Copy Share Image
Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates… — Jon Evans Bad Copy Share Image
Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work… — Jon Evans Find Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil. — Jon Evans California Copy Share Image
The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but… — Jon Evans Computers Copy Share Image
I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here… — Jon Evans Books Copy Share Image
A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. — Jon Evans Bad Copy Share Image
I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly… — Jon Evans Keep Copy Share Image
As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a… — Jon Evans Computers Copy Share Image
“Always abandon your enemies, and never abandon your friends.” — Jon Evans Friendship Copy Share Image
Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this… — Jon Evans Abuse Copy Share Image
