Interview With Jeff Lindsay (progrium)
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Interview with Jeff Lindsay
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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&8217;ll address thousands on the subject of biodiversity and property rights. We cover US consumers&8217; 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 &8220;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&8217;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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<p class="MsoNormal"> 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 truth...
Continue readingYou Must Remember
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you must remember...
Continue readingPremature Thoughts on Weight Loss
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I&8217;ve been losing weight for a month and have managed to shed around 12 pounds; I&8217;ve still got a ways to go, but I&8217;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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<p class="MsoNormal"> The experience itself has a small value, providing tidbits to recall later context for other experiences. </p>...
Continue readingDavid’s Two and a Half SSD Bets for 2010
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I&8217;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 &8220;serious&8221; each was. From lightest-weight / most innocuous to most intimate and serious, we came up with the following:...
Continue readingMRE Review: Sopakco Chicken Pesto Pasta (5/10)
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This is my first review of an MRE from the Sopakco Sure-Pak 121. I got the version without heaters....
Continue readingGreat Music (for Brett Durett)
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David&8217;s Awesome Tunes You May Not Have Heard for Brett...
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