Octavian’s Thoughts

What I’ve learned building a deep learning Dog Face Recognition iOS app

Advice written by not-you might not apply to you

If you’re trying to build an internet business right now, there’s so much advice out there that it can be overwhelming.

And they are all So. Damn. Convincing. After all, they are written by people that have already had…

What does “it’s a good start” really mean

When I moved to the US, I thought Americans were just too damn positive. There was no way that everything was so ‘great’ and ‘awesome’ all the time!

And then it struck me: it was all just a matter of translation. What if people…

A small thought about design vs. engineering

One amazingly talented designer can produce best-in-class UX design for an app or site with not that much help.

It seems to be much harder, if not impossible, for one amazingly talented software engineer to produce and…

Hey Twitter, remember when Facebook used to show *everything*?

Creating a new product is a form of social engineering

I realized that creating something new that’s successful is basically a form of social engineering, in a good way.

We’re trying to convince some people into doing something they have never done before.