the more i’ve done in my career, the more i’ve come to believe that it’s more important to come up with a unique, great idea than it is to choose a thing blindly and execute…
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why you should find things you hate doing
one of the bigger things i’ve learned while running kettle & fire is that there are a LOT of things i hate doing. bookkeeping, accounting, reading contracts, any sort of admin stuff that feels boring….
how to mock up a website in keynote
for a long time i’ve wanted to figure out how to do mockups in tools i know how to use (aka not photoshop, omnigraffle, hotgloo or something like that). i also wanted to use tools that…
Meta Problems and the Problem Stack
After leaving Rackspace (post Exceptional acquisition), I was stuck with what felt (to me) like the ultimate first world problem. I didn’t know what company to start next. In the end, I started Kettle &…
I Launched A Thing
For the last year, I’ve written pretty much nothing. With the exception of a piece I wrote on using psychology to improve conversion rate, and another about Kettle & Fire on SumoMe (link), I’ve pretty…
Why Virtual Reality Will Change Your Life
There’s a lot of hype in the Valley around virtual reality. Microsoft, Phillips, Samsung and Google are all entering the game currently dominated by Facebook and their $2 billion purchase of Oculus Rift — the VR system…
Munger, Money and Achieving Your Goals
From this transcription of a talk by Charlie Munger: And the one thing that all those winning betters in the whole history of people who’ve beaten the pari-mutuel system have is quite simple. They bet…
Replaceability vs. Impact, or Deciding What To Do With Your Life
For anyone, choosing what to do with your life is a stressful guessing game. With hard work and some luck comes no shortage of great opportunities. And, with opportunity, many tough choices. By way of…
The Benefits of Freemium that Nobody Talks About
There’s a war of opinions going on in the B2B software world, and one side is winning. The war is over one fundamental question – how should I price my product or service? No doubt,…
What the Non-Technical Need to Know About Tech
For 3 years I’ve been trying to learn programming. And every year, I’ve deepened my understanding of how the web works. Learning the basics of software development and how the web works at a high…