In the summer of 2011, I went for a hike with Ryan Hitchler in the foothills of Boulder, Colorado. He was in the midst of finishing his Master’s degree and I asked what his plans were after…

I gave a talk recently to Kyle Coberly’s Full Stack class at Galvanize. The talk was completely open-ended — “come tell my class about yourself or your experience in the software development world,” is the only guidance I was given.

One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my 2 years as the Spigot Labs founder, head developer, and chief dishwasher is the lesson of “good enough”. I think it’s particularly applicable as a bootstrapped startup, but there are elements that apply to funded…

Constructing My House of Genius

Last week I had the honor of presenting Spigot Labs at a House of Genius session here in Denver. If you…