TLDR: List of books, hacks, tools and general things I think everyone at a consumer startup will find useful to know. There are a bunch of things that I feel that everyone at TouchNote should know, or at least be familiar with. None of them are rocket science — they’re…

TLDR: A few weeks ago, I decided to re-immerse in weekend trading of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and altcoins. I share my thoughts about how fun it is; varying degrees of FOMO; and some extra reading you should do if you’re considering investing. I signed up to Coinbase back in 2015, but…

Yesterday, I spent a good three hours trying to purchase the latest hyped cryptocurrency: IOTA. Here’s what I was surprised to find out. Purchasing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is still a super complicated process, with poor UX. One of the big promises of virtual currencies is that they’re programmatic. Yet…

In 2011, I switched from PC to Mac. I used a MacBook Air 15" for about a year until it got stolen. I then rushed back to a PC. It was for a simple reason: I couldn’t get work done as easily on a Mac. It’s interesting how little marketing…

Say you are launching a new website. You create a launch webpage (aka sign-up, beta or pre-registation webpage) for your new domain, e.g. via www.launchrock.com. Now, how do you redirect traffic to that launch page, without redirecting all sub-folders, too? In our case we wanted people who visit www.timeforequity.co or…

Twitter makes it very hard to unfollow all your Twitter followers. 3rd party services had to withdraw this feature because they got letters from Twitter “asking” them to remove that option. “Asking” in quotes, because otherwise Twitter would have likely removed their permissions which would shut their business. So here…

Hi everyone I just wanted to say hi. My name is Freud. I’m now 10 weeks old and live in London with my keepers, the Rans (one of them writes this blog, I think). I like to fetch things, jump and hop, wee a bit outside the house and a…

There’s one thing about Dropbox that drives me nuts. The date format. If you use their website, all files are listed using the US format of mm-dd-yyyy (e.g. 06–16–2012). According to this, only Americans and Belizans use the month-day-year format. Most of the world, over 3 billion people, use day-month-year…

I came across this fantastic paper after reading about Meehl’s 1954 book, “Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence”. …