Hello World!
Hi! I’m Jamie Todd Rubin. I am a writer. I write code, fiction, and nonfiction, and I’ve been writing this blog for twenty years now.
My fiction has appeared in many of the leading science fiction magazines, and several anthologies. I am an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
My nonfiction has appeared in the science fiction magazines as well as places like The Daily Beast, Fatherly, and 99U.
By day, I am an application architect and project manager. I started with a great company 3 months after graduating from college and more than 30 years later, I’m still there, enjoying the work I do. I occasionally make software outside of work, and that can sometimes be found on GitHub.
I’m an avid reader, reading all kinds of books, and marking them up with notes and highlights, much to the dismay of friends. But I believe you need to make a book your own, that they should be interactive, and that interaction sometimes takes place in the margins. Here is a list of everything I’ve read since 1996. And another list, culled from memory, of books I’ve read prior to 1996
Today, I live in Arlington, Virginia with my wife and three children.
A few other interesting facts:
- I was a private pilot, flying Cessnas in the skies above Los Angeles at the turn of the century.
- I’ve been interviewed on LifeHackers “How I Work” series.
- For several years, I was Evernote’s ambassador for paperless lifestyle. I wrote a popular series of posts about Evernote here on the blog.
See my Contact page for ways to reach me.
My Writing
- Complete bibliography
- Vacation in the Golden Age (blog series)
- Going Paperless (blog series)
- Practically Paperless with Obsidian (blog series)
Podcasts and Interview
- Functional Nerds, Ep. 226 (March 2015)
- Three Hoarsemen, Ep. 18 (January 2015)
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing #253 (April 2014)
- Evernote Podcast #35 (January 2013)
About the Blog
Welcome! Come on in. Take a load off. Just kick that stuff out of the way. I created this space in 2005 and have been blogging fairly regularly ever since.
I’ve written more than 7,300 posts spanning 19+ years and do not allow paid advertising of any kind. This is a labor of love, and thankfully, I love doing it.
At its peak this blog had over 120,000 views per month, or just about 4,000 a day, which seems remarkable since I generally write about whatever is on my mind. Just about 1.6 million people have seen the blog, totaling about 3.5 million views.
I don’t accept unsolicited guest posts, advertising, link swapping, or anything like that. This is my hobby. I want to write the posts, and I want my readers to enjoy them without annoying advertisements. See my site policies for more information.
Here are a few representative samples of what you’ll find here.
- A Process for Going Paperless in 10 Minutes a Day (2012)
- Book Banning: An Alternate History (2022)
- The Ghosts of White Christmas Past (2016)
- The Death of Marigold Churchill (2014)
- The Butterfly Effect of Reading (2018)
- Every Package is Resealable (2021)
- How I Work, January 2021 Edition (2021)
- A Good Word Processor Should Do 3 Things Really Well (2013)
- Vacation in the Golden Age (2011)
- 15 Use Cases Comparing E-Books to Traditional Books: An Illustrated List (2012)
For a more complete selection, check out my curated index to the blog.