January 2010
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December 2009
15 posts
6 things real life has taught me about tech
The holidays always lead to some interesting conversations. This year, I was able to share my thoughts that anyone, worth their salt, working in tech needs to be tinkering outside their normal day-to-day routine to stay relevant. And, I was able to digest some thoughts on healthcare reform, balanced diets, and choosing baby names. Somehow these chats got me to thinking about which real life...
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http://spencerfry.com/picking-your-co-founders →
Spencer Fry of Carbonmade has a great blog post about how luck plays into picking co-founders. There’s a good dialogue shaping up in the comments section continuing his thoughts. Personally, I value the openness and honesty of Spencer and his commenters to share their own stories on the matter.
Sadly, My Awesome Email Survey! hasn’t received many submissions. Actually, only 1. I’ll leave it open till the end of the year for grins, but maybe I’ll need to revisit it again later.
My hope in putting it together was to find out if other people are feeling the same overwhelming feeling from email and other sources of information. Today, I have too many emails coming into...
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howto: Chrome on Mac with 6 awesome extensions
Okay, so it’s actually going to be Chromium, not Chrome. Currently, the Mac version of Chrome doesn’t support extensions. I did find some links that claim to be able to make it work with a developer channel release, but I couldn’t get it going.
I really, really, wanted Chrome working with extensions on my Mac, so I spent some more time digging around randomly. Eventually, I...
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Be at least as smart as a parking lot. →
Jesse Lamb is Not My Lawyer, and he has a great 10-minute read about contracts over on his blog. Check it out.
Because people are confronted with form contracts and contracts of adhesion so often, it seems like they frequently fail to assess what their bargaining position is before they begin to make an agreement. When that happens, they may end up agreeing to unfavorable terms without even...
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When simple still isn't simple
This is an update to my when simple isn’t simple post that I didn’t intend to do. But, it’s a slow news day, and I need to vent. I don’t expect anyone from AMZN actually reads this blog, but they still don’t get it.
Exhibit A
MBA’s love spreadsheets, especially customizable ones they can put their own company logo in and show off to executives. Maybe...
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Meat In The Sky on product/market balance →
A friend and really smart guy, Sachin Agarwal seems to have launched a brand new blog to talk about his thoughts on startups. The article has some good insights on how to evolve our thinking around market/product fit and fun graphics that remind me of a physics simulation. Yes, I am a geek.
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Free Ideas!
From time to time, I dream up an idea for an application, way of doing things, business. These are a couple that I’ve chosen not to pursue. Maybe you’ll want to implement one, maybe one will spur you to create a better idea, or maybe you’ll just think “Man, that guy’s an idiot.” Have fun and good luck!
Unix shell based on concurrency
Languages that support...
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Watchgary:
An Interview about Crush IT on Hulu
What are your thoughts?
from badgerhound
I love the energy Gary brings to these concepts and how accessible he makes them. He’s even got a real business guy on board!
Also, the box below this seems to come from re-blogging a post that has a question. It wasn’t displaying properly at first, but now it seems to. So, I hope...
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An email survey
Being out of town for a holiday always brings out the quirks in how I use email. So, I put together a survey to see if you or anyone you know has similar experiences.
My Awesome Email Survey!
It’s a very general survey, and I don’t want to pre-seed my thoughts on the subject, so you’ll have to wait until I get enough data to hear them. But, whether I get the results I want,...