...or move slow and be safe? There are two main schools of thoughts. First, "move fast and break things". I'm using an adage that means something else, but at the same time I feel like this represents well this...
I started a creative and engineering studio with my fiancee, so I had a fair amount calls with potential clients recently. Some went well. Some went wrong. Some felt like they went wrong, but went well. Most of the calls...
SUCCESSFUL INVESTING IS ALL about common sense. As Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, has said, it is simple, but it is not easy. the winning strategy for investing in stocks is to own all of the nation’s publicly held...
Too many early stage startups ask me about "the secrets of growth hacking". They want to know what hacks they can put in place to gain customers and grow. Looking for the one trick that will finally unlock their hockey...
"My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people." ## Part 1 - Fundamental Techniques In Handling People When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing...
“In my retiring room I am by myself,” Jung said Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard...
I've heard a few people argue that "React is the new jQuery". I think this is plain wrong on so many levels and I want to touch on two specific points. ## jQuery was (and is) great A few years...
this post is still a draft as I'm working on the examples design and ux We don't often think (or know) about it, but our everyday use of numbers is only one representation of values amongst many. If I ask...
Prepare Rails and local environment First, let's install postgres. On Mac, brew install postgres should do the trick. On other systems, looks at the Postgres official install page (https://www.postgresql.org/download/). Then, switch the Rails app to using Postgres. In your Gemfile,...
What is the problem 1. Local and Prod work differently. Once you have a Rails app working locally, a lot of setup has to be done to get the app in production 2. PaaS like Heroku automate everything for...