Hi there from Mumbai. I’ve been jetsetting quite a bit the last few months. Here are some miscellaneous hacks from my trips: Nothing helps pass a long flight or bus ride like sleep masks or ear plugs. Add them to your packing list. Take melatonin supplements to (a) induce sleep on a plane or (b) get over jetlag. For less agony in your flight search, try Hipmunk.com. Get a rewards Read the article >>
Just a quick post today. I’ve been thinking a lot about the grit of leadership, persistence, mindfulness, and will lately. Some observations on some traps of leadership: It’s easy to quit; harder to be persistent. Derisiveness is easy; it’s hard to be thoughtfully decisive. It’s easy to ignore the hard conversations; harder to have them. What separates an athlete from the rest of Read the article >>
It’s been one year since my original post on Gmail slowness, and it now seems that, since then, others have been having similar issues. I’ve collated some tips to fix your gmail slowness: First things first, make sure your internet connection is speedy. Switch to a modern browser, like Google Chrome. Delete your cookies, temporary internet files, and disable browser plugins. Disable any Read the article >>
Google Glass is the most exciting consumer technology project in years. It is an opportunity to totally change the way humanity interacts with computing. Here are some Google Glass app ideas I’ve collated or collected from around the internet: ( Disclaimer: This post is entirely speculation. The post is a product of my own brainstorming, and is not endorsed by Google. ) Glass’ Killer features The Read the article >>
Aloha from Hawaii. I’m on vacation, so I’ve just got a quick post to file this week. I’m lucky enough to be staying in Kannapali beach in Maui this week, and spending the day yesterday trekking on the road to hana. For the uninitiated, the road to hana is a treacherous stretch of highway in the northeast of the island of Maui, famous for being both very windy and very scenic. We Read the article >>
Software development is a somewhat abstract process and, often, estimating the path from feature ideation to completion is an exercise in guesswork. An unfortunate fact of life as a web engineer is that building blocks involved are often undocumented, unsupported, incomplete, and/or convoluted. If, like me, you work in a distributed environment, your different team members surely have different Read the article >>
This post is a visual history of Microsoft Windows. For more from our Visual History Series: Mac OS X Microsoft Windows Linux/Ubuntu (coming soon) iPod (coming soon) iPhone (coming soon) Android (coming soon) Netscape/Firefox (coming soon) Safari (coming soon) IE (coming soon) Super Mario (coming soon) Legend Of Zelda (coming soon) Sonic The Hedgehog (coming soon) Bomberman (coming Read the article >>
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After 4 years of building, fixing, and managing software, I’ve come to realize that the default state of everything is failure. Chances are that your fancy feature doesn’t work when you first ship. That new process probably has plenty of holes in it. Everything is a work in progress, and your world is in perpetual beta. In startup life, there are TWO worlds you live in. One that celebrates Read the article >>
I think the Google Glass project is so exciting. For the uninitiated, Glass is a wearable computer, a pair of eyeglasses. Think of it like a smartphone, on your face. How cool would it be to have a ‘wearable computer’? Think of all the things you could do: You could record every moment of your day. You could be presented contextual information about everyone around you. You could Read the article >>