February 2012
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Inside A Live Kickstarter Campaign: Part 1
With 15 days to go, Meme Defense has raised 36% of it’s campaign goal and it has 398 likes on Facebook. Most of the campaign money has come from Twitter at 22%.
Feb 10th - Feb 14th: Most all of the pledges were from people I knew. I received a few pledges from Kickstarter’s Discovery and one from Kickstarter’s Search. At this point, I did very little marketing except...
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Facebook Likes are cheap for Kickstarter campaigns
I’m making a game (Meme Defense) about Internet memes, so it’s easy to believe that once Facebook got word of the idea, things started to spread without much force. However, the results were not what I was expecting.
To date, Meme Defense has 39 backers, mostly from friends that I’ve shown the game to and either their excitement or their need for a t-shirt got them to pledge...
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Efficiently Managing Two Jobs (AKA working 16...
When I saw this post in November about Jack Dorsey, I was taken aback at the skepticism the article received, but I had nothing to say to the contrary…until now.
Listen, working 16 hours a day is nuts, and probably not cut out for many people at all, but I do it, and I love it.
Qualifications:
I’m a software engineer for a San Francisco startup called Eventbrite. I spend 8-11...
October 2011
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You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends.
I won’t name names, so we’ll call her Jane.
Jane’s five closest friends are two engineers at Google, an engineer at Eventbrite, an architect, and her father (which is so cute), who is the president of a national soccer team in Jane’s home country.
Jane graduated with a degree in Business Administration. That was a mistake. BizAdmin in San Francisco basically means she...
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Thanks for the Future.
My parents didn’t have much money when I was growing up, but they worked hard. I don’t believe they’ve ever been on a vacation. They managed to buy a Compaq Deskpro 386 a few years after it came out. That’s where all my free time ..well, all my time was spent. I had it all, Arkanoid, Lemmings, virtual pinball.
I beat the games, eventually mastered them, and I was...
September 2011
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Multitasking is a Myth - 10 Tips On Staying...
I’m focusing on writing a blog entry right now. The most important concept is to look at one task at a time and — TOUCHDOWN Raiders!! Fuck yes! Winning season this year, I swear to god!!
Oh, I’m also streaming an NFL game in the background, but it’s okay because I’m good at multitasking. Over my tenure of being an Internet user, I have found that my ability to...
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Americans Only Live on the Weekends
“What’d you do this weekend?”
On Monday, it’s is the most common question asked around the office, and by the time we see what Friday afternoon looks like, that question becomes, “What’re you up to this weekend?”
Most common answer: “Caught up on sleep.”
I try my best to never have the common answer.
For example:
Three weekends ago, I went...
August 2011
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30 Things I've Done at Startups
I wrote and pushed code to the production servers on my first day at work.
To: team@company.com Message: “Just checked in 10000 attendees on our new iPhone app I finished last night.” CEO replies all: “Fuck yeah!”
I have had pixie sticks and Red Bull as a meal.
I was in the room as Zuckerberg unveiled the Facebook Graph API. I was in the room as Steve Jobs unveiled...
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Planning for the Apocalypse (by being less...
I often go to extremes. This is largely due to my unattributed selfishness and desire to have everything I’ve ever wanted.
I also have fears about the end of society. This is largely due to my reading the news every day. Now I’ve watched plenty of movies in which people die horrific deaths. There’s always that asshole who lost his glasses mere seconds before a dinosaur...
July 2011
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Not My American Dream
I spent 25 years in Oklahoma. That’s a long time for any place, but longer in Oklahoma. The flow of time there is frozen. I didn’t know that I hated Oklahoma for a very long while. I simply thought that life was meant to be lived in all the glory that American suburbia had to offer.
I drove to Denver once. I had to pass through Kansas to get there. Denver itself was Oklahoma...
June 2011
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What kind of traffic does #2 on Hacker News yield?
I started this blog a couple weeks ago because I wanted to share some protips I practice regarding productivity, health, programming, and general lifehacks. My second post about discomfort as a motivator created a little stir in the Hacker News community last week and I wanted to present the numbers I saw.
Let me come right out and say that I didn’t have analytics installed for the actual...
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Please, make yourself uncomfortable.
Here’s me at any given weekday around noon:
I’m staring at some code usually written by some French guy back in 2003. After I curse the French, I refactor a chunk and restart my server, alt-tab over to my browser, immediately command-T and type ‘r-e’ until reddit.com appears in my omnibar, browse Reddit’s front page, reach over to grab a bite from lunch, command-L...
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I don't always sit down at work, but when I do,...
Being a programmer is hard on the body. Given, there’s not a lot of risk of slicing a finger off, or breaking a leg, but programmers don’t exactly have swimmer’s abs either. What tends to go wrong for the common fellow nerd who spends hour after hour exercising his or her brain rather than their body?
Weight issues - This one is easy pickings. When you sit for 12 - 14 hours a...
