Something I appreciate doing here and there is building smaller scale projects, focused on going back to basics on technologies I use. I had a few months of frenzy at work where everything we worked on was so comlicated (not...
Raw Kindle notes for Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less by Greg McKeown (http://a.co/apLZfEB) the basic value proposition of Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you...
Raw Kindle notes for It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson (http://a.co/cmIuAaw) Your company is a product. A company is like software. It has to be usable, it has to be useful. And it...
Raw Kindle notes for Creative Selection: Inside Apple'S Design Process During The Golden Age Of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda (http://a.co/hr5Dj0x) This book is about my fifteen years at Apple, my efforts to make great software while I was there, and...
...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...