William Hertling's Thoughtstream

The Martian by Andy Weir was fantastic. I'm sitting in a bar right now with a wet napkin by my side because I teared up during the end ...

I love trying to extrapolate trends and seeing what I can learn from the process. This past weekend I spent some time thinking about the siz...

I found myself wondering how long I've been blogging this morning. I've been on blogger at williamhertling.com since 2008, accordi...

As a writer and a software developer, I'm in the content business. I understand businesses need to make money off online services, and w...

Auditing all the things: The future of smarter monitoring and detection Jen Andre Founder @threatstack @fun_cuddles Started with qu...

Car Alarms & Smoke Alarms & Monitoring Dan Slimmon @danslimmon Senior Platform Engineer at Exosite I work in Ops, so I wear...

Katherine Daniels @beerops kd@gamechanger.io The site is going down. But everything seemed to be fine. checked web servers, databa...

Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco Battery Ventures Please, no More Minutes, Milliseconds, Monoliths… Or Monitoring Tools! #Monitorama May 20...

I'm going to be mostly unavailable now through mid-May. I'm working to get through the final revisions to Avogadro Corp and managing...

Before I published Avogadro Corp, I considered running a Kickstarter campaign to fund publishing the novel. I ended up publishing without t...

All writers, whether indie, small press, or large traditional publisher, must learn how to market themselves and their books. If they don...

This was an insanely fun chat I had with Brad Feld at the Silicon Flatirons's Science fiction & Entrepreneurship conference. We disc...

Brad Feld posts about why he writes for an hour each day : Finally, after almost 20 years of writing, the light bulb went on for me. I w...

I was honored to be interviewed by the inimitable Nikola Danaylov (aka Socrates) for the Singularity 1 on 1 podcast . In our 45 minute dis...

Great news: The Last Firewall audiobook is available now from Audible and iTunes . Go grab a copy! Narrated by the talented Jennifer O...