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Optimizing for Minimal Deathbed Regret

Posted: May 2nd, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: life | No Comments » I announced  yesterday that I'm leaving StepOut. Have you ever spent several years working towards something larger than yourself?  This was my first time doing that. In college, you have projects that last for a few weeks.  Maybe a semester.   This one lasted me 5 years.  You know the difference between a 5-week project and a 5-year project? If you're lucky, if you really care, and if Read the article >>

Ch-ch-changes

Posted: May 1st, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: stepout | No Comments » There's an old cliche that entrepreneurship is a journey, not a destination.  If that's true, then my journey has been a particularly long & windy one.  In 2008, I quit my entry-level job in Philadelphia and moved to Boulder, Colorado with two guys I'd met on craigslist (now my co-founders) within 10 days.  In 2009, we moved to New York City to grow our online group-dating site.  In 2010, Read the article >>

On Engineering Leadership

Posted: April 11th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: startups | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments » Like many web engineers who have built teams as their startups have grown, I do not have an MBA.   Nor do I want one.  If you are like me in-so-far as you value management practice over theory, you probably do not want one either. That hasn't stopped me from developing my own theories.  Reading this quora thread on why many engineers detest their management reminds me, I have a theory that credible Read the article >>

Export Instagram Photos w. this Bookmarklet

Posted: March 18th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: tools | Tags: , , , | No Comments » There are a few good tools around the web for exporting instagram photos from your account.  Unfortunately, these tools only allow you to export you *own* photos from Instagram.  Well, I'd like to be able to copies of other photos on Instagram too. I just coded up a bookmarklet that allows me to export anyone's instagram photos.  Drag this bookmarklet into your browser bookmark bar and navigate Read the article >>

Persistence

Posted: March 8th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: startups | No Comments » Since I am in NYC and my team is in Mumbai, I usually wake up at an ungodly time to go for a run and then take calls with the indian team. I like to call my morning calls my "punch me in the face" wake up calls.  When you're a web startup moving as fast as we are, capturing a billion+ person market, building a product across 9 time zones, shit is bound to break.  Daily.  From speaking with other Read the article >>
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