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Personal blog by John Peebles - CEO at Administrate. Writing about technology, teams, startups, and lessons from building software companies.

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2026 4

  1. Building GREMLIN's Lair
  2. GREMLIN Improvements: The First Five Days
  3. Building an AI Scheduling Assistant That Can't Go Rogue...I Hope.
  4. Introducing GREMLIN, My AI-Powered Assistant

2024 1

  1. Grunge Rock and a Neighborhood Network in 90s China

2020 1

  1. I Actually Love Targeted Ads

2019 2

  1. Hello Turing Fest!
  2. Moving On

2018 1

  1. The Magic of Vinyl

2017 1

  1. Resignation

2016 1

  1. How to Ask for Advice / Feedback About Your Startup

2015 2

  1. Startups, Take the Pledge for Your Community
  2. Go Watch Pixar's "Inside Out"

2014 3

  1. Visiting the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT
  2. 2013: Year in Review
  3. We Need Viable Search Engine Competition, Now

2013 8

  1. I've Never Wished I Was Less Technical
  2. Focus on Systems, Not Goals
  3. Missing the Point on Electric Cars
  4. The Caledonian Etape 2013 Recap
  5. A Preview of the 2013 Caledonian Etape
  6. Tour of the Borders 2013 Race Recap
  7. Life in the Edinburgh Tech Cube
  8. An Evening with the United Kingdom's CTO

2012 11

  1. 2012, the Year in Review
  2. Book Review: And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson
  3. Thoughts on Samsung, Apple, and Patents
  4. We Consistently Underestimate Kids
  5. Simplify Everything
  6. Safety First: A New Mantra for America
  7. The Efforts of a Generation - Some Thoughts on PPC Advertising
  8. Martin Jacques TED Talk on China's Economic Rise
  9. Book Review: Twilight in the Forbidden City
  10. Random Point of Ignorance: Keyboards
  11. Goodbye Current Events

2011 22

  1. Bucket List Item Completed: Skydiving
  2. I'll Probably Never Hire Another Pure SysAdmin
  3. Book Review: The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
  4. Steve Jobs
  5. PHP Sucks!
  6. A Guide to Walt Disney World - Tickets and the Magic Kingdom
  7. High Speed Passenger Rail for America: Thanks But No Thanks
  8. The Impending Ad War
  9. Open the Gate!
  10. Does China's Autocratic Government Provide an Economic Advantage?
  11. Jeopardy and Watson
  12. Jeopardy, Artificial Intelligence, and a Chess Playing Robot
  13. Guster at the House of Blues
  14. Google is Getting Copied! So What?
  15. Book Review: The Confession by John Grisham
  16. Did China Steal America's Stealth Technology?
  17. China's Impending Military Might: A Cause for Concern?
  18. Double Book Review: Typhoon and The Spanish Game by Charles Cumming
  19. China vs. the United States: What about all this debt?
  20. China vs. the United States
  21. Jungfraujoch, the Top of Europe
  22. Hello From Zurich, Switzerland

2010 6

  1. Christmas - a Time of Giving
  2. Thinking Like a User: The Bank Analogy
  3. The Non-Technical Tech Talk
  4. Country Driving - A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
  5. The North Korean State of Mind
  6. Book Review: When China Rules the World

2009 1

  1. Distributed Software Teams