Posts by Scott Barstow

What data are you storing that could be used against you or your customers? As I've been working on my new product, I've realized that I'm not taking these issues...

I've been having a lot of conversations lately with myself (yes, I know) and others about being responsible. Often times the word responsible is used to assign blame: "Who was...

I've been building a product for the last four or five months, working on it as I have time. When I started the product, I had a very firm idea...

My guest for this episode is Ursula Mead, CEO and co-founder of InHerSight. In Her Sight is an engagement platform for women to rate the companies they work for on...

There's a pretty cool conference coming up this week and it's all online. I was asked to talk about much of what I write about on this blog, but there...

I went to the doctor this week to get a piece of something (we're still not sure what) taken out of my foot. Earlier this year I stepped on something...

I read / watch just about everything I can on the drug war / drug trade. For some reason I have a morbid obsession with the topic. Wolf Boys is...

The Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu spent a week together at the Dalai Lama's retreat in northern India and the author recorded all of the conversations. I liked this...

Darknet is the first book I read by Matthew Mather. I also have read Cyberstorm which I highly recommend. Darknet is the story of a stockbroker who stumbles into a secret...

Cyberstorm is a book about a small community's quest to survive an all-out cyber attack on the US in the midst of one of the most deadly weather events in...

This is the sixth and final post in a series about documenting technology product builds. If you missed the intro, Part 1 – Use Cases, Part 2 – Requirements, Part 3 – Sequence Diagrams, Part 4...

There's not enough time to write about the greatness of this book. It is a seminal work on the history of humans, going way back in evolutionary history and walking...

The human condition has been improving, steadily, for thousands of years. Intuitively we know this, but at times it can be hard to remember. Matt Ridley does a masterful job...

If you were to meet me at a mixer and we got talking about books, this book would be one of the first that comes up for me. It's hard...

I love books about basketball, generally, and anything about John Wooden. I just got done with this book and I would describe it as OK. Kareem is an OK story...

This is the fifth in a series of posts about documenting technology product builds. If you missed the intro, Part 1 – Use Cases, Part 2 – Requirements, Part 3 – Sequence Diagrams or Part 4...

This is the best book you will ever read about war time suffering and the power of the human spirit. E.B. Sledge is known throughout the military for his story...

This is the third in a series of posts about documenting technology product builds. If you missed the intro, Part 1 - Use Cases, Part 2 - Requirements or Part 3 - Sequence Diagrams...