Google is My New Microsoft

It’s been half a decade since I updated my personal reading list. Seems like as good a time as any to create another little time capsule. I want to read I’m trying to keep this list shorter. Hopefully I’ll revisit this document with a new version in 2026. House of Leaves, Danielewski The Buddha before Buddhism, Fronsdal The Body Keeps the Score,...

Hello, I’m Steven! I’m a project manager and developer from Halifax. I grow teams and ensure that we build the right product. Lately, I also build, evolve, and maintain backend Rails codebases for companies and non-profits. I’ve been writing code for 30 years, but I will always sweep the floor. 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 I lived in India for 10 years...

After 13 years of entrepreneurship, running businesses like Nilenso (India’s first worker-owned tech company) and Endatabas (earth’s first immutable HTAP SQL database), I’m looking for full-time employment. I’ve enjoyed starting unique companies from scratch and taking them as far as I can, but now I want to help grow something larger than I...

I recently made two new friends: Abhinav Omprakash and Dawn Walker. Abhinav said I’m an optimist and I should write about it. Dawn said I shouldn’t try to coin any new terms. I should know better, but this essay follows Abhinav’s recommendation — and credits Dawn, in the very likely event I should have followed her advice instead. I have been...

Commercial Open Source Softare (COSS) is an only-loosely-agreed-upon term for businesses built upon selling open source products. COSS has seen two significant waves pass, with a third now emerging. The head of each wave lasts approximately a decade. The tail of each wave extends into the future indefinitely. Each wave subsumes all previous...