I love projects that help people use technology in new ways. The mouse, the GUI, multitouch, conversational interfaces... they all rewrote the book on what was possible.

Of course, these things weren't just dreamed into existence. It took equal parts genius and diligence to write the algorithms, design the protocols, and draft the specs.

That's what makes writing software so great - it's equal parts beer and coffee. You get to be a dreamer on the whiteboard, and then you get to buckle down, put on the headphones, and write that dream into reality.

With Lacona, I tried to rethink the way that people interact with their computers, and I did that by slaving over functions and benchmarks and test scripts for two years.

I wouldn't change a thing.