May 2012
4 posts
20 Lines of Code That Will Beat A/B Testing Every... →
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
April 2012
8 posts
Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive... →
“Disaster is many times the prelude to success. You just have to get through it.”
AR Rahman and the Art of Focus →
March 2012
7 posts
Where’s _why? The disappearance of one of the... →
“Connais-toi pour t’améliorer.”
– Auguste Comte
Rat on GitHub →
I just open-sourced the PHP/MySQL boilerplate web app that I’ve been working on for nearly two years.
February 2012
7 posts
The Age of AngelList →
The Hacker Way →
Subedit →
The one idea I added to PleaseBuildThis that I wish existed almost every day.
January 2012
31 posts
Scaling Github →
Breakdowns in communication →
The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A... →
I love startup post-mortems - there’s so much to learn from them.
“There will come a day when the tablet market is larger than the PC market.”
– Tim Cook
Coding for success →
Idea: an exchange for trading eBooks →
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Word to the Resourceful →
TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA →
“Every hour of the day that I could contact a customer was selling time, and when...”
– Mark Cuban
Paint a room white, give stickers to kids →
Building products from improvised user behaviors →
Why You Should Share Ideas
Do you want feedback from investors on your startup ideas?
I recently shared an idea on PleaseBuildThis.com for “a Chrome extension that lets you fix spelling/grammar mistakes on any website.”
Check out what happened when I tweeted the idea:
“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble...”
– Lycidas by Milton
Timing is everything →
The first piece from The Kernel’s entrepreneurship columnist Andy Scott.
“It’s what comes next that is so much more interesting - the point between taking...”
– Andy Weissman
Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime
Wanderers in the fog →
A beautifully written essay about entrepreneurship.
“The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can...”
– Mark Cuban
Scrollorama
There’s a nifty new trick appearing on various good-looking websites. The first example of it that I saw was Ben the Bodyguard (scroll down the page to see it). Now there’s an open source library to help you create these effects with jQuery. It’s called Scrollorama and if you’re into web design you should check it out.