Moving from the luxuries of your parents’ home to a bunk bed in a small bedroom with 7 other dudes sounds scary. Let’s not even go into the implications of this house being taken off the market for more permanent Bay Area resident hopefuls. Initially the situation feels very uncomfortable…

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As I scrolled through Twitter on my phone from bed this morning I learned that Drew Olanoff has cancer again. Hodgkin’s lymphoma, to be specific. I, like many of you, didn’t really know anything about Hodgkin’s. So I looked it up and according to the Mayo Clinic in Hodgkin’s lymphoma…

I was browsing through the archive of Semil Shah’s blog earlier — one I read regularly — and found myself particularly fascinated by this review of Marc Andreessen’s 2014 on Twitter. In it, you see large numbers for pretty much every metric that quantifies activity on the social network —…

I don’t like drinking plain water, even though I know I should because it’s good for health. I feel guilty about never waking up before 10am — on weekdays. Sometimes I’ll take upwards of 5 showers throughout the day, just to think. I can’t code for more than an hour…

At least I think I did… — There are many common topics that reach the top of HN on a daily basis, but there’s one that really resonates within me. One that stirs up much controversy, for it is reviled by many as a repulsive practice in today’s IT community. What I speak of is “The Interview.”…

Or why ego plays a big role in our lives — egotistic: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance. I think Facebook is killing me. Something that has been on my mind a lot lately is the success and (or at least perceived) greatness of the lives of those around me in comparison with my own. …

The following is my story, along with lessons learned, of spending the past year learning how to code. It’s okay to disagree, your story may very well be different from mine. Approximately one year ago from today, I was, like any missionary entrepreneur, ruthlessly pursuing the dream of building something…