Month: April 2011
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A Comedy of Errors
For reasons you’ll soon understand, I’m barely coherent enough to think, let alone write. I had a few ideas for posts to write, but since I don’t currently have the wherewithal to do them justice, a summary of the past 24 hours of my life will hopefully give you a bit of entertainment. 10:00am It’s…
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Getting Better All the Time
I think and hope that regular readers of my blog will appreciate the variety of posts I throw up-random stories, travel tips, big life ideas, etc. I live a happy and fulfilling life, and the idea is that if I make my ideas and thought processes public, over the long term, people can take bits…
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Yuka
We’re on a flight back from Las Vegas, and I’m exhausted. When we planned the trip we had this brilliant idea that we would book six am flights and just play poker all night before flying out. Rock star. Two weeks before the trip it seemed like a great idea. At one am it seemed…
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Rejected from YC
It’s not quite fair to write a post full of optimism and entitlement and then not follow up on it when I’m proven to be wrong. So here it goes: we didn’t get an interview with Y Combinator. I still think we’re exactly what they’re looking for, whether our application accurately conveyed that or not,…
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Why and How to Learn to Program
It’s surprisingly rare for me to get emails with suggestions for posts, but since posting last week about my startup, I’ve gotten several requests for a post about programming. Good idea-I should have thought of this before. Now is a particularly good time to talk about programming, because now is a particularly good time to…