If like me, you are a software engineer, you probably also get LinkedIn recruiter spam. I don’t mind getting messages from folks who have read my profile and my twitter, considered my the best fit for my talents within their clients, and crafted a message to me. But LinkedIn messages from recruiters are not like that. They are spray-and-pray messages dogshit from folks who haven’t even read Read the article >>
I love music, I love coding and I love coding to music. Some assorted coding favorites from this year: Radiohead Classical — by Christopher O’Reilly Ronald Jenkees Beatles Classical Joy Wants Eternity Herbie Hancock Curated Coding Music Krishna Das The Amurrican Dollar Phutureprimitive John Hopkins Helios Read the article >>
Captio has become one of my favorite apps for iOS. It does one thing, and does it very well. Open Captio and start typing. Press send and the note is delivered to your inbox. Why is Captio a great tool? Because using it, I have tamed my inbox with Gmail GTD. Now, I can capture ideas generated when I am on: bus rides long runs bike rides the bathroom in bed and evaluate Read the article >>
I just got back from a 3 week Asian trip where I had a lot of time available to do some in-depth reading. Here are some book recommendations: Sum (40 tales from the alterlive) — 2 hour read – Fiction — 40 whimsical short stories about what the afterlife might be like. Physics 100 Years into the future — 5 hour read – Fiction — Exactly what it sounds like The Water Knife — Read the article >>
One of my struggles over the last several years has been an appetite to do too many projects but having the constraint of a finite amount of time to do them. Between living in beautiful Colorado, switching jobs, purchasing a house, planning a wedding, learning photography, it is hard to figure out where I should spend an open block of several hours. I’ve written before how to manage my time Read the article >>
Here are some Bitcoin App Ideas I was kicking around during my Spring 2015 ‘funemployment’: International donations — Kiva is one of my favorite apps for charitable donations. I’d like to ability to make donations on my mobile phone, with bitcoin. International Remittence — This just seems like such an obvious use case for bitcoin, but I’ve never heard of anyone actually using the BlockChain Read the article >>
For my survivor story, click here. I spent a copious amount of time over the past several months preparing my Ignite Boulder talk on Suicide Stigma; both as a means of meticulously preparing for speaking to a large audience, but also a cathartic way of making sense of my own survivor story. I actually found it pretty hard to find good information online about the epidemic of suicide. I’m Read the article >>
I gave a talk at Ignite Boulder 26 — The subject of my talk was the stigma of suicide and of mental health — This was my first time speaking in front of 1400 people, much less about suicide. Here is a video of the talk: I’ve attached a transcript of my talk below: In 2010, I met my family met me for lunch in Manhattan. 4 of them visited but actually only *3* of them were Read the article…
I’m really excited about the launch of Atomic Slack — Atomic Slack is an add-on to Slack that builds features for communities of interest (as opposed to teams at work). Their first feature is a daily digest of the most important messages on a slack team. I’m definitely going to use this on the Data Scientists Slack Team. Click here to check it out. Read the article >>
A job or two ago, I was under pressure to hire up a team of engineers, but the CEO wouldn’t let me use a recruiter. While there was some short term pain associated with that directive, it was the best move in the long term. Once I learned to recruit on my own, I found better candidates and I found plenty of them. My CEO was right. He made me break my recruiter-habit and I’ll never look back. Recruiters…