I'm a software inventor. I build tools for online speech, and I made Biff, a web framework for Clojure. I'm also a musician and a dad.

Favorite essays:

• We need better tools for online speech
• How The Sample drives thousands of newsletter subscriptions
• The messy future of social media
• Roots and branches: centralization and the role of software startups
• The trade-offs of being a startup founder
• AWS battles
• Should you work hard?
• A brief history of Agile

Recommendations:

• Resident Contrarian
• MidRange
• Mark Nottingham
• Works in progress
• Tangle
• Atoms vs Bits
• HN blogs
• The Content Technologist
• One Man & His Blog

Contact me: hello@jacobobryant.com