November 2011
14 posts
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Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers, and Why I'm... →
I was offered a job recently at a high-growth personal financial services internet company as a product manager. Generally I was really excited about the potential, but something in the back of my mind was telling me that this 800+ head company already had the basics figured out, and to Steve’s 2nd point, were merely re-executing an existing business model in new markets.
Absolutely, if I...
“Incubee”
– Pupil of an incubator, such as Techstars or yCombinator
Timelaps vid from spacestation: Beauty. →
Maybe Richard Branson isn’t crazy and going to space is better than just face-eating aliens with acidy spit.
We're "Setting the New Bar" for Selection... →
Hireology! Good hit guys!
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and... →
Reading this book right now, it’s seriously fascinating! It’s part of my nighttime CS degree in persuit of better hacking.
How do you write the number “6” in binary? “0110”
Braille and Morse Code are both to thank for the binary language (or code) that we use for all electronic device communication. Amazing.
The modern ‘decimal’ number system was...
Program Or Be Programmed →
Thanks Fred, this exact point is part of my rational for starting a blog. I intend to write a bit about my endeavors to become a ‘hacker’ so that when the right idea and circumstances come along, I can ‘hack’ together a working prototype to put on show for the right partners and funding sources.
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Use a fishtape and a pocket full of change to wire...
Ok, so I’m a big LifeHacker fan. Here’s my take on a LH caliber DIY project.
My family moved to a newer and much larger apartment a few months back. The place is great and has a sweet high-ceiling den on the lower level. A big issue I’ve been trying to figure out is how to get my 5-channel surround sound all hooked up without having wires in the open or conduit all over the...
“Shoehorn” v. present. to force something to fit. ”
Re: A message from AmazonLocal
Amazeballs!
Amazon askes you if they can please stop spamming you! God bless you Jeff
Bezos!
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM, AmazonLocal wrote:
> [image: AmazonLocal]
> Dear *Drew Gilliam*,
>
> It looks like you might not be interested in receiving daily deal emails
> from AmazonLocal, so we will stop sending them to you.
>
> If we are wrong and you wish to...
Feature Fail
I’m starting a blog today because I often have a strong opinion on how technology is designed or the features included/excluded in a new product/service.
It’ll be easy to point out flaws in someone else’s execution. I wish I could do some from a qualified position of having actually executed a product well, but I can’t. My ernest hope is that in writing about problems and...
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
– #resonateswithme
General George S. Patton (via demons)
“It’s not we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
– Edwin Land, creator of Poloroid 