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Opportunities With A Screaming Baby
When I first started staying home with my son, I have to admit his screaming bouts were challenging. The emotions that flow me are terrifying: anger, helplessness, questioning my competency as a father. And lonely. Today as I had him…
Posted on 19 Apr 2013
Using your chromebook as your full-time, no compromises, Android dev machine.
If you are a ChromeBook user and a Android developer, the release of crouton takes the ChromeBook from a great pure browsing device into the world of no compromise powerful development machines, without dual-booting! Crouton makes the ChromeBook a creation…
Posted on 04 Mar 2013
How do you say no to your boss?
My wife and I had an argument last night. She came home livid that she was buried under another huge extra set of work. I stupidly made it worse because I told her she needed to learn how to tell…
Posted on 01 Mar 2013
Using gradle for android (on OSX with Brew)
Update: looks like you can use gradle 1.4 now. These instructions were only required if you use “classpath ‘com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.2’” inside your build.gradle file. If you use the 0.3 version of the android plugin, these instructions are not necessary. These instructions…
Posted on 27 Feb 2013
Old companies aren't built on "I don't know."
For the last three months I’ve been “not working” as I care full time for my three month old son. It is exhilarating and scary. What does it mean to my career to take at least six months off of…
Posted on 26 Feb 2013
On the side of the Facebook employee bus, a new "hell screen" is painted
“Jigokuhen” (or ”Hell Screen” in English; Powells Books or Amazon) is a story written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa in which he describes Yoshihide, the greatest painter of the land. The Wikipedia page says it best: ”… when Yoshihide is instructed to…
Posted on 25 Feb 2013
What my son notices
My son always notices is the most sublime things in the room. He stares across my messy desk, full of papers and unwound headphones and plastic bags and hydrogen peroxide, looking past all that and up into the corner of…
Posted on 19 Feb 2013
$0 in 2013
I’ve been reading the recent posts on Hacker News where people have discussed their income successes this last year and been very inspired to do more of what I love (writing and creating software art) and earn a good living…
Posted on 03 Jan 2013
How to hire software developers if you aren't Google
Starting new technology businesses is even more addictive than watching “Breaking Bad.” I’ve started and sold two companies in the past three years for nice six figure exits. Have I mastered the art of hiring tech workers? No way! I…
Posted on 28 Aug 2012
What #6 on Hacker News means
Last week I posted an article on my experiences at the Wisdom 2.0 conference. It reached #6 on Hacker News, far surpassing anything else I have written that received decent traffic . I posted this article to HN, Twitter and…
Posted on 12 Mar 2012