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We voted! I love that I sit down with my wife Rebecca to go through our ballots and discuss together. We don’t agree on everything but having a counterparty to talk things through with is fabulous. Maybe we should have a “voting party” where everyone...
Continue readingMany people seem broadly nervous to write about their own personal political platform stances which may be nuanced and not in alignment with any one party or candidate, instead preferring to stump for a party and candidate and re-share uncritical pro...
Continue readingHow I vetted and dumped a startup idea in ~20 hours and for under $1000....
Continue readingfor Investors & Startups, by David E. Weekly, written mid-2016...
Continue readingSummary: Don’t ever put money into LendingClub. You can invest in seconds but will spend years of your life trying to get it out, and the returns are unimpressive....
Continue readingEquity compensation at several public companies like Google and Facebook is in the form of direct stock grants, yes. Employees can sell these shares once vested on the public market for full retail value during either an open trading window following...
Continue readingWhile this article correctly notes that a little negotiation at onboarding can result in significant gains, there are some serious errors in the suggested approach....
Continue readingLooking back over the past twenty years here in Silicon Valley there have been some remarkable transformations in how knowledge worker labor has been priced....
Continue readingI’ve had a number of folks ask me about the macro markets and if that should change their stance on angel investing or their startup. TL;DR: nope....
Continue readingMildly technical post about Internet performance in emerging markets....
Continue readingKeynote speech given to kick off Hack Generation Y on January 24, 2015...
Continue readingOne of the benefits of aging is that we get to discover the products that we really like; we’ve had the chance to try out lots of different things and so we can be sure of our preferences. Life brings lots of petty satisfactions from sleeping on your...
Continue readingA few months ago I installed iOS8 on my iPhone 5. I was pretty unimpressed. The new OS, admittedly a beta build, was sluggish, crashed often, and didn’t have any really revolutionary new features that made using an iPhone better. I think one is allow...
Continue readingOh, Foursquare....
Continue readingOh, Foursquare. We’re breaking up. It’s not me. It’s you. I know this may come as something as a surprise; after all I’ve known you longer than I’ve known my wife and been with you more places. I’ve paid extravagant international data plans simply fo...
Continue reading> You’ve built a great product. You’ve got a couple customers okay, most of them are friends and/or free, a small but passionate team, and a product that demos well. Now you just need to turn it into a company!...
Continue readingCurrent display technology, using HDMI 1.4, can only do 4K at 30fps. This has rather limited the adoption of 4K screens since there has been no way to get high frame rate content all the way to the display &8211; and of course there's no way to...
Continue reading9am, Facebook Headquarters: Cafe 18. My laptop is open next to a plate of kiwi and mango. It's Friday and my last day of "bootcamp" at Facebook. Every person in the engineering organization &8211; VP to fresh-outta-college &8211; has t...
Continue readingHow do people come to believe a thing? They can believe a thing because of reason, or take something on faith....
Continue readingUnsolicited calls from a tech recruiter are one of the banes of existence of a technologist with a LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile that has been anything close to meaningfully filled out. Or a startup founder. Both sides get hammered with calls. And e...
Continue readingWritten as a Thanksgiving present for Kate Compton...
Continue readingOne month ago1, we started working on our newest idea, connecting extended families through sharing. We’re now proud to announce the name for our endeavor: Oha.na2....
Continue readingAs posted on the Gaston Labs Tumblr1:...
Continue readingMuch1 has2 been3 said4 about the classic "Hacker + Hustler" dynamic, but I think a lot of the discussion misses the subtly of what both bring to the table and some of the other critical archetypes that need to be filled in a successful star...
Continue readingHere's a bold bet for the century: manufacturing will return to the U.S....
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