David interviews Dr. William Marshall of the NASA Ames Research Center about his current projects to build low cost satellites, the neccessary creation of a lunar base, and his path in coming to Silicon Valley....
Continue readingDavid Weekly interviews James Halliday and Peteris Krumins, the CEO and CTO respectively of the newly-established Browserling, a browser testing firm in which David made his first angel investment. The interview was done a mere hour after closing the...
Continue readingDavid interviews environmental policy wonk Tim Telleen-Lawton about his work for Environment California....
Continue readingBjoern Lasse Herrmann and Aleksandra Markova describe the Atherton, CA based incubator-house they live in called Blackbox.vc, how it sprung out of a global network of youth entrepreneurs called Sandbox, and how a young, rural German came to meet a yo...
Continue readingMy interview with Jeff Lindsay, my co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse and the Hacker Dojo....
Continue readingMy interview with Jeff Lindsay1, with whom I co-founded SuperHappyDevHouse2 and the Hacker Dojo3....
Continue readingRhett Butler of Mongabay1 talks about his upcoming State Department sponsored trip to Indonesia, where he'll address thousands on the subject of biodiversity and property rights. We cover US consumers' relationship to Green Marketing, corpo...
Continue readingInterview with Paolo Privitera of DooChoo, talking about innovation and startups in Venice and creating ties and cultural exchange with Silicon Valley....
Continue readingMy now former roommate Ulrich describes his epic road trip from California down to the southern tip of Chile in his trusty Jeep, with a kayak mounted to his roof. The trip took over four years and included a three month pit-stop in Guatamala "an...
Continue readingAlan explains how he got introduced to computers, why he went to Stanford and majored in philosophy, and how he ended up as a software engineer working for a Silicon Valley company....
Continue readingAlan outlines the three rules of software testing:...
Continue readingJocelyn describes her childhood in Wyoming and coming to Silicon Valley as well as her personal interests....
Continue readingDavid Weekly interviews Treehouse housemate Nato Saichek about his hobbyist space vehicle project to build a pico-satellite measuring 4&8243; cubed that will use solar sails to sail to the moon....
Continue readingI grew up nearsighted pretty badly in my left eye 20/200, or -3.0 &8211; my right eye too, but to a much lesser degree 20/35 or -1.0. I hated the idea of sticking stuff in my eye every morning and glasses didn't appeal to me much as a kid, so I...
Continue readingA talk I gave for Lean Startup Circle at UCSF in 2009....
Continue readingCurious about the TM and R symbols by brand names? Interested in whether your company needs a trademark? I hope to here clarify for you what a trademark is, how to register one, and how to get your trademark registered internationally!...
Continue readingBecause stories are told from a first-person perspective, they concern themselves with the subjective truth of the observer. different observers of the same factual events are recorded as different stories with different truths. many conflicting s...
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Continue readingI've been losing weight for a month and have managed to shed around 12 pounds; I've still got a ways to go, but I've been happy enough with the results and have received enough good advice about the topic that I thought it would be wor...
Continue readingThe experience itself has a small value, providing tidbits to recall later context for other experiences....
Continue readingI've been following with keen interest the development of solid state drives1 SSDs, which are basically really fast and reliable flash memory to use instead of the current rotating magnetic drives. Why does this matter? Well, first and foremost,...
Continue readingMy coworker Joël1 and I were today discussing the different ways we can communicate and how "serious" each was. From lightest-weight / most innocuous to most intimate and serious, we came up with the following:...
Continue readingThis is my first review of an MRE from the Sopakco Sure-Pak 121. I got the version without heaters....
Continue readingDavid's Awesome Tunes You May Not Have Heard for Brett...
Continue readingAlso known as: David's Guide to Getting Drunk in Style....
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