TEDxValenciaSt: Go Write Some Science Fiction! (VIDEO)
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A talk I gave at TEDxValenciaSt1 in 2011 on the importance of imagining the ideal freed from the constraints of knowing how you're going to build something!...
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2011
6dot: Interview With Karina Pikhart & Peter Cantisani
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My interview with Karina Pikhart and Peter Cantisani about Karina's startup 6dot, which is making a new portable Braille labelling system....
Continue readingInterview with Dr. Jade Wang of NASA Ames
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Dr. Jade Wang of NASA Ames talks about The Game, her long, fascinating voyage to America from China as a child and her time here in Silicon Valley....
Continue readingInterview With Dr. William Marshall of NASA
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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 readingInterview With Browserling
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David 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 readingEnvironment California: Interview with Tim Telleen-Lawton
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David interviews environmental policy wonk Tim Telleen-Lawton about his work for Environment California....
Continue readingBlackbox.vc: Interview with Bjorn and Aleksandra
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Bjoern 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 readingInterview With Jeff Lindsay (progrium)
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My interview with Jeff Lindsay, my co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse and the Hacker Dojo....
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My interview with Jeff Lindsay1, with whom I co-founded SuperHappyDevHouse2 and the Hacker Dojo3....
Continue readingInterview with Rhett Butler of Mongabay
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Rhett 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: Paolo Privitera
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Interview with Paolo Privitera of DooChoo, talking about innovation and startups in Venice and creating ties and cultural exchange with Silicon Valley....
Continue readingUlrich’s Road Trip (interview)
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My 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 readingInterview with Alan Keefer on Silicon Valley
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Alan 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 readingInterview with Alan Keefer on Testing
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Alan outlines the three rules of software testing:...
Continue readingInterview with Jocelyn Joy Berl
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Jocelyn describes her childhood in Wyoming and coming to Silicon Valley as well as her personal interests....
Continue readingInterview with Nathan (“Nato”) Saichek
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David 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....
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My LASIK Experience: Intralase & Wavefront
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I 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...
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How PBworks Was A Lean Startup (VIDEO)
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A talk I gave for Lean Startup Circle at UCSF in 2009....
Continue readingA Primer on Trademark Registrations
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Curious 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!...
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Philosophies on Living
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Because 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...
Continue readingYou Must Remember
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you must remember...
Continue readingPremature Thoughts on Weight Loss
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I'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 readingDistillation
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The experience itself has a small value, providing tidbits to recall later context for other experiences....
Continue readingDavid’s Two and a Half SSD Bets for 2010
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I'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 readingThe 10 Levels of Modern Communication
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My 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:...
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