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Slidedeck: The San Francisco Bay Area in the Second Gilded Age
This is from a talk I gave the other week on the Bay Area’s regional governance, housing and transportation issues.It’s 101 slides long! I keep modifying it every single time. Let me know if you have any thoughts or if you want annotations.
Kim-Mai Cutler4 days ago
Invisible Design
Designing interactions is a series of small events over time. Invisible design binds these events together into meaningful experiences. My…background is in Industrial Design — but I felt stuck in the old way of working, where everything was in silos. Then I joined a young agency where the barriers between design disciplines were torn down. ¶ “Invisible Design is a collection of considered decisions that make a great experience” ¶ Because today physical and digital interactions simply aren’t siloed. There are computers in everything, connecting people, products and spaces.
Raymond BessemerJan 26
#GetUnStuck: Salespreneurs Helping Salespreneurs
The cut-throat perception of sales people is widespread, but the reality is 99% of people selling something aren’t competing with 99% of…other people selling something. Basically, every sales person could help another sales person and not cannibalize their existing business. As I have seen this sense of give first community amongst bay area entrepreneurs, I think it’s appropriate to assert #GetUnStuck is shifting the job from salesperson to salespreneur. ¶ The GetUnstuck.Club informed me they will be releasing 3 new micro-sales mentorship videos everyday.
David Smooke2 days ago
Can Sheryl Sandberg Cruise Disney into the Future
I recently heard a rumor I can’t seem to get out of my head.It’s probably because Walt Disney was the first studio Goliath, I had the luck to work with. Looking back I probably should have started with a smaller studio, but our paths met early on while building MovieLaLa so sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. ¶ Disney is a company I’ve learned to admire even before I started MovieLaLa. I was doubly excited to work with them so early in our MovieLaLa career.
Dana Loberg4 days ago
Moving our Flask backend from Heroku to AWS — The Guide
The original reasoning for the move was purely cost related, however the performance improvement was huge. Our company decided to officialy…move into the “Cockroach Age”, and by that it sadly meant moving a lot of our server-side implementation out of Heroku. Heroku made things simple, that’s for sure, but we had a ton of Amazon credits and were feeling a bit taken advantage of by paying more and getting less all for pure laziness. ¶ I can’t say it was easy. I literally looked at dozens of articles, all providing partial information or outdated/wrong information.
Yarden EitanApr 5
In A Web With No Ads, Who Wins?
Would a future without ads be as amazing as we think?It’s 2016 and in between the constant debates around encryption and the future of the open Web, we’re also discussing the future of online ads. Publishers have been putting up ads and users have been blocking them ever since we realized the Web was a fantastic place. ¶ More recently though, the debate has been sparked by Apple adding in content blockers in iOS 9. Not only did it rejuvenate the oft-forgotten debate about invasive Internet ads, but it directly pointed out just how important ads…
Akhil UnnikrishnanMar 20
Adulthood has no intention of being fun
To all the people out there who hit the big 30 and realize the fun times are over: welcome to reality!The problem with being dissapointed by the monotony of adulthood is that we — including myself — believed adulthood would be something great, something truly valuable, the real deal, what life is actually all about. Well — it’s not. When you’re in you 30's, you haven’t married, haven’t hatched a kid or two (but most of your friends have or are getting started), life — for the most part — is pretty dull.
Mary J.Sep 10, 2015
20 Awe-Inspiring Solo Trip Destinations For Girls In India
Being a girl is a full time task! You are strong, courageous, hard-working, kind, fearless, caring…all rolled into one. Girls deserve…pampering and an ideal getaway from the hustle-bustle and the men of their life. So, I suggest you take that over-due, much needed break with your group of girls or simply with your own-self. The traveler has taken the liberty of listing a variety of places from across the globe that can be your perfect escape. Hop on Ladies & book your Trip! With FROGO ¶ Here’s a combined list for both spiritual and shopaholic travelers: ¶ 1.
Umesh JalanApr 3
How Can You Attract Top Talent As A Bootstrapper?
I’m just shooting off notes from one of the latest events I put together here in Singapore… SheWorx Breakfast Launch at Trehaus Co-Work…with Pocket Sun of SoGal Ventures on 30/3. Don’t expect these to be an incredibly thorough analysis of the talk but rather me trying to encrypt my handwriting off 4 pages of notes. ¶ What you want is a diversified team of talented people. If you are like me, bootstrapping your start-up this is difficult to do with little to no money to attract these types of peeps. We think this process look like this.I couldn’t agree with this more.
I Co-Founded the world’s largest performance poetry channel on YouTube (ButtonPoetry)… and being another “phoney” (aka the only founder who…I Co-Founded the world’s largest performance poetry channel on YouTube (ButtonPoetry)… and being another “phoney” (aka the only founder who wasn’t a performance poet)… I struggle getting the confidence to post blogs and any longform online communication as I don’t see it as my forte. However, I have things to say, experiences to share, resources to provide, hiding behind excuses is no good. Get up and go…post! 🙌
QueenLearMar 29
Writing modern C++ servers using Wangle.
Firstly, thanks for all the feedback from my first post — Starting a tech startup with C++.TL;DR I show how to build a modern C++ high-performance, asynchronous echo server that can be written with just 48 lines of code. ¶ I mentioned in my previous post that I was able to build a prototype database engine within one day using Facebook’s Wangle so this post explains how I managed that. By the end of this post, you will be able to write a high-performance C++ server using Wangle. This post also serves as a tutorial which will be merged into Wangle’s README.md.
James PerryJan 9
Hackathons for humanity, or for technology?
Us technology geeks can be blinded by the fun and awesomeness of technology, but sometimes we can take it for granted and it can frankly be…inappropriate, particularly when we try to solve problems of people who are not technology geeks. ¶ Last weekend an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Hackathon was organised in Cape Town, and boy was I ready to go, even if it meant bringing my own small child along with a babysitter! Between my two small children experience and love for technology, this was right up my alley! I had roped in a couple of awesome friends with skills including ECD, science, education, coding, monitoring and…
Carolina Ödman-GovenderJun 30, 2015
What VCs look for in an initial company presentation?
My take after 6 months in venture and seeing hundreds of themJune 9, 2004, at 6:02 p.m. Jeff Bezos sent an e-mail to his team with the following subject line “No powerpoint presentations from now on at steam.” ¶ The decision was made to avoid laundry list presentations that ppt makes so easy to create. Presentations that lack a narrative might be okay if you are here to present and create the narrative. But when you share your deck for the first time to get a meeting or a call, you are almost killing all your chances.
Arnaud BoucheronJan 9
Equity 101 — Definitions, Distribution Methods, and Potential Issues.
Dividing up equity is no simple task. Before you decide on how to allocate equity, its important to have a deep understanding of the…dynamics and methods to distribute it. Too many founders botch this in the beginning and have their equity granted to them before an MVP even makes it to market. Only to be left with headaches and a messy cap-table. I was lucky to have a couple of awesome mentors, help me along the way. Special thanks to Rick Nucci of Guru, in particular. ¶ This blog post consists of mostly definitions. Dividing up equity is another blog, for another day.
Andrew NakkacheMar 21
Physical and Mental Health for Developers
OK, I’m late again, but this time I have a decent excuse. My Wife has been in Hospital the past week and it has thrown my planning and…timing. By pure coincidence, it leads me nicely to the topic I wanted to discuss this installment based on a presentation I have given twice. The topic is physical and mental health for developers. ¶ Let’s get started! ¶ Why Care in the First Place? ¶ The life of a developer or a person involved with development can be a busy and stressful one. In addition to your day job you are likely keeping up to date with tech news, attending meetups and events, contributing to open source projects…
Chris ChinchillaMar 21
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Dear People Who Write Self-Help Guides & Life Hacks
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Love this! Adds an important point to what you’re saying in your article: Most of these life hack articles read like stock material too. All these ‘how to’-lists master the art of giving advice without really giving advice. As in: a hand’s on approach.
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