The Art of Asking: Or, How to Ask and Get What You Want

If you don’t ask, the answer is already no.

11 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business

Glitter was literally shooting out of my eye sockets as I quit my PR job to “be my own boss.” Then reality struck.

Why I Quit CrossFit

On my very first day of CrossFit, I threw up. It happened my second day, too. And the third. And pretty much all of the…

Explaining public-key cryptography to non-geeks

It’s not as complicated as it sounds.

A Product Manager’s Job

Product management is one of the hardest jobs to define in any organization, partially because it’s different in…

Making ~$100k per year? Congratulations, you will barely make enough to cover your retirement funds

2016 Update: Updated rent and food numbers by a bit to better reflect current costs in the Bay.

Why Sports Are a Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time

and why we bask in others’ achievements.

Creating Custom UITableViewCell using Nib (.xib) files in XCode

The ‘proper’ way

This brief tutorial will demonstrate two things:

The simplest way to create a custom UITableViewCell: A lot of new iOS developers seem to…

Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup

Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar