Boulder Startup Week wrapped up a couple weeks ago. Boy, what a week! These were some of my favorite events. How to CTO The format of this event was 3-4 local CTOs interviewed by Miles Matthias. It was great to hear what some of the up & coming engineering leaders in Boulder are doing. Audio of these talks will be posted on Exec Podcast. Building Virtual Reality From Boulder Startup Read the article >>
A few years ago, I was at a small bluegrass music festival in the mountains of Colorado. Nestled in a ridge next to a winding river, you could see a square mile of tents during the day, and you could see the milky way after the sun went down. Late at night, after the music had ended, the festival attendees would circle around campfires near their tents for warmth. Our camp was visible on a stretch Read the article >>
Today is my brothers 27th birthday. Or, it would have been, if he had not committed suicide in December 2014. My brother suffered from unamangeable anxiety & depression. I’m remembering his life, his illness, and his death, as I read the Spring 2016 edition of Tricycle magazine. Social anxiety comes from being focused on “how we are doing” in this world. We are constantly judging our Read the article >>
I love music, I love coding and I love coding to music. To stay in flow mode, I’ve found that coding music must: Not have lyrics in it. Something about lyrical music interferes with my ability to reason algorithmically. Not be overpowering. I haven’t found that I’m able to focus when listening to metal or hard rock. Some assorted coding favorites from this year: (To see last years Read the article >>
Click here to access your Chrome Plugins: chrome://plugins or type chrome://plugins into your address bag, and press ‘enter’. Read the article >>
At CES this year, I stumbled into getting an Oculus Rift cv1 (Consumer Version 1) demo. I had heard that the quickest way to turn a VR skeptic into a VR believer is a demo. Turns out I was no different. The Demo Two things that carried the demo: Presence – The device really tricks your brain into thinking you are in the virtual environment. I think that this is a combination of the Read the article >>
About a year ago, my friend Miles and I started organizing informal monthly lunches for startup engineering leaders in Boulder (contact me if you’re not on the list). I’m past the point in my career where there’s much upside to showing up to a random networking happy hour, and have found a recurring informal lunch with high caliber people to be a nice alternative. These lunches have evolved into Read the article >>
I am running the future of tech track at Boulder Startup Week 2016 (May 16-20th). Topics include VR/AR, cryptocurrency, machine learning, chatops, advanced photography, etc. The schedule was just posted. I hope to see you there! Read the article >>
Since I was a teenager, I’ve been interested in learning how things work. For years, that meant learning how computers worked. When I did my first meditation retreat, I started to take that intellectual curiosity and turn it towards my mind. Basically the pursuit of an ever more lucid understanding of the following questions: Why do I think the things I do? Why do I feel the things Read the article >>
I built a cryptocurrency trading framework in January, and open sourced it as ‘pytrader’ 2 weeks ago. Among the wave of interest, there were a handful of cynics: npx writes, on HN: I can’t imagine why anyone would actually want to release a profitable trader. Isn’t this kind of a tautologically dumb thing to do? .. I just can’t see any motivation to make it profitable and then issue a pull Read the article >>