Max Beatty

My birth­day was last week, and I wanted to con­tinue a lit­tle tra­di­tion of writ­ing some­thing each year. This year, I donated my birth­day to char­ity and reached my goal! I didn’t get a chance to write any­thing on my actual birth­day because I was too busy goof­ing off with my mom, who was in town […]

I have been mov­ing away for the last eight years. It was always my choice. It always felt nat­ural. Since mov­ing to the Bay Area, I’ve strug­gled with accept­ing that every­one won’t fol­low. I came to expect that oth­ers will real­ize where I’m going is where they will even­tu­ally want to be and meet me there.

The cost of laun­dry in my build­ing went up last month with­out expla­na­tion. This irked me because I had saved an exact amount of quar­ters to do a cer­tain num­ber of loads. I became con­sumed by this small incon­ve­nience and made a spread­sheet to out­line the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of this change. Ulti­mately, I will have to make […]

Whether cor­po­ra­tions real­ize it or not, they are explic­itly and implic­itly cap­ping their char­ity. I under­stand they want to pro­tect their lia­bil­i­ties as a com­pany and do not want to look fool­ish say­ing, “Sorry, we actu­ally can’t donate $1 tril­lion, but thanks for all the RTs.” If you’re going to match dona­tions or donate a […]

To date, I’ve been a mem­ber of Face­book for 24% of my life. I’ve grown up with them, lived through their redesigns, and sorta kinda under­stood their grow­ing num­ber of fea­tures. Today, they’ve added the Sub­scribe But­ton. By opt­ing in, you can remove the syn­chro­nous foun­da­tion of the plat­form which is what I’m choos­ing to do.