How To Lose Friends and Influence No One
A couple of months ago, I was applying for a job at a pretty neat startup that very publicly promoted their focus on corporate culture. They said their entire manifesto for their company culture...
View ArticleModel View Controller Web Development For Drunks
It’s 3:35 in the AM on a Saturday night, or what annoying people call “Sunday Morning”. You just got home from a long night of drinking and you are fucking starving. Nothing is open, so you’re...
View ArticleXFCE And Ubuntu Saved My Old Macbook
2008. 2008 was the day that me and my Macbook Pro started our relationship. It was great at first. It was my first foray into OS X and I was starting to see why everyone was slowly but surely...
View ArticleWhat happens when you run out of low hanging fruit?
As some of you may know, I’m working on a project called Shift SMS which allows you to simply schedule and manage your staff with text messages (as if you’ve missed that on all my my blog posts and...
View ArticleValidating A Business That Doesn’t Exist Yet Part 2: Marketing
First of all, thanks for the support from everyone about Shift SMS! I’ve gotten some amazing feedback from a lot of people and I’m glad that people are so interested in the idea. So without further...
View ArticleValidating A Business That Doesn’t Exist Yet Part 3: Slight Progress
What a whirlwind week in the world of Shift SMS! It’s not like “we made it” progress, but progress none the less. Let’s break it down. Guest Posting Thanks to Joe at Betakit, I got my very first ever...
View ArticleWriting is writing is writing
I need to write more. One of the most challenging things is not only having the discipline to write every single day, whether it be for this blog, Shift SMS, or guest blogging, but to also have the...
View ArticleSomething to push against
There is really nothing more daunting than a blank canvas. I used to be nervous about the first character or line that I would draw into a notebook because it was such a grand statement. This act...
View ArticleThe only way I can work is if everything is a joke
You know what would be really funny? If I changed the lyrics to “California” by Phantom Planet and sang it horribly over the PA to over 2000 people for my high school student council campaign, just to...
View ArticleThe Nintendo 64 that I never won
One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life is to pretend that Goldeneye 64 was the best game that ever existed in the world. As a child, we were a Sony house. Sony TV, Sony stereo, Sony...
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