Philip Roberts

Essays

• Farewell
• Uncertainty, Tough Decisions, and Poker
• Imperative vs Declarative
• Learning To Learn
• Cutting Code
• Leadership and Communities
• The dev team of one: accountability
• Stop looking for a co-founder
• Startup lessons learned after two and a half years
• Live as if you'll die in ten years
• Where is truth?
• Anonymous Pen Pals
• Rejection
• Lightning
• Vows
• The making of Shakey: a Realtime, Massively Multiplayer, Shakespearean parlour game
• Giving up on self-defeating self-talk
• A Shakey Victory: Culture Hack Scotland 2012
• Founder depression, and a meetup proposal.
• Generalists, Founders and the Impostor Syndrome
• A few live coding tips
• Upper Bounds
• Mass Media is Dead (to me)
• Biases, part 2
• Biases, part 1
• Irrationality & Design

Talks

• Patterns of creation
• An Introduction To D3 Js
• Realtime Games At Scotlandjs
• Live Coding A Simple Backbone Js App
• Float And Backbone

Other Thoughts

• Behind The Scenes
• Scripting Gmail
• Achieving Perfect Work Life Balance Is Impossible
• A Momentous Step
• How To Live With Introverts
• A logo for introverts
• Me On Lifehacker
• Reflections on "Rejection"
• I'm just going to leave this here:
• I Know Times Are Hard
• Coolest Thing In The World
• Fresh, free music with Sonic Router
• Team Shakey
• Rubiks Cube Vid
• Time Is Not A Nice Person I Know Because The
• Departing The North Sea On New Years Day 2012
• Faster rake tasks in Rails
• Finally A Top Technical Dating Tip Youve No
• Ruby Inject Block Argument Order
• Reading Rails
• Same-same, but different
• Sorry Sir, I need to see your Id.
• Creation Why
• The difficulty of "why?"
• Unspiration
• Seward Highway Sunset
• A Wordle Of My Masters Thesis