• A Comedy of Errors

    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…

  • Getting Better All the Time

    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…

  • Yuka

    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…

  • Rejected from YC

    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,…

  • Why and How to Learn to Program

    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…

  • How We Applied to Y Combinator

    How We Applied to Y Combinator

    I mentioned last week that I had a deadline which I was working towards. I’m going to explain a bit more about this because a) it’s consuming my life these days and b) I have the feeling this is going to be the beginning of something big. If it is something big, I think it…

  • Pictures From Afghanistan

    Pictures From Afghanistan

    I’m in Austin, ostensibly for SXSW, but in reality I’ve spent most of my time at my friend’s house, or at Casa, plugging away at my YC demo. The deadline is this Sunday and there’s a lot to be done before I’ll feel confident submitting. So that’s why I haven’t posted yet this week. I…

  • I’m Speaking at SXSW This Weekend!

    I’m Speaking at SXSW This Weekend!

    As I’ve mentioned (again and again.), Jason Boehle has graciously offered me half of his slot at South by Southwest this weekend. Here are the details: Date: 3/13/2011 Time: 12:30pm Place: Marriot Courtyard Jason is going to be talking about ways to make money while traveling, focusing on stuff like affiliate marketing. I’ll be talking…

  • What You Think About When You’re Independent

    What You Think About When You’re Independent

    There are two types of people at the poker table, generally. First there are the sharks. They stay quiet and occasionally make comments about the game that intimidate amateur players by revealing just how much they’re thinking about. The second group are normal people who are there to have a good time. Through hours of…

  • Help Me Find a Parking Spot

    Help Me Find a Parking Spot

    Last week I  was sitting in bed, wrapping my brain around a programming problem presented by my newest project. With no warning, someone started pounding on the wall of my RV. No identification, no verbal communication. Just banging on the wall. Within a few seconds someone else started banging on the other side. Would you…