Customer Service is Truly Important Over 5 years ago I bought a Subaru from Van Bortel in Rochester, NY. I first started my car search by visiting all the nearby dealers to my apartment. Some of them told
job Applying for the Job I've been receiving a lot of job applications recently and they all have something in common: none of them seem to want the job and it's very rare to find someone who stands
productivity How to Email more Efficiently on iPhone Writing or replying to an email on mobile is a pain in the butt. Either manage to write a typo free sentence or reply without enough information. Regardless of the scenario, one thing
If journalists reviewed Macs like iPads Excellent article that reverses the status quo of iPad reviews where typical hypothesis is, "Will the iPad Pro replace your MacBook?" If you're, well, anybody, you'll surely find the lack of a rear
How to use Slack Without Distracting Your Coworkers A bazillion people are using Slack[1] or another chat room for work. It's very common to see a startup, especially with remote workers, using an online chat room for real time communication
There is no such thing as a quick question There is no such thing as a "quick question." When someone asks you a "quick question" it's quick to ask, but not quick to answer. A quick answer would be: yes, no or
design Expectations: What it's like to write code Writing code is a creative act. It requires focus and concentration. It requires a lot of thinking and deliberation. Thinking about what types of structures to use where, how to design a function
Geese Verizon and AT&T (and the other carriers) are obviously feeling the heat from T-Mobile. Recently, T-Mobile has been gaining subscribers month over month while red and blue have been losing them.
How Shortcuts Keyboard has saved me time I built a little iPhone keyboard called Shortcuts Keyboard. My goal was simple: to create a custom keyboard for the iPhone that would save me time by efficiently using shortcuts.Here's how I've
The Future of Live Events It's been about 6 months since I've joined Sidestep and I wanted to share with you a bit about where we see live events going in the future. I spotted this medium post
Switching to Github Issues from Asana We really like Asana. It's powerful and incredibly flexible. You can use it however you'd like. However, it doesn't work well for us and our engineering team because it's too far from the
shortcuts How I use Shortcuts on the iPhone Recently, I had to go out of town. I had a pair of tickets to an event (go sharks!) and I was going to miss it. I wanted to get something for the
"G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring" In a New York Times piece Laszlo Bock interviews Google's head of PR. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless
Diamond Curiosity How do you know that DeBeers isn’t fabricating diamonds in a lab and then emblazoning them with a serial number as if they were found in some mine in Africa? Then, they
Why Education Should be Creative and Free Logan is my hero. He is 13. Skiing to me is freedom and so is my education. It's about doing things differently. It's about community and helping each other. What's amazing, is that
Who is the man in pink shaking things up? Wearing a pink t-mobile t-shirt under his blazer and his tennis shoes, John Legere is the man shaking up the cellular network industry. He's a rebel, former AT&T employee, and not
2013 Year in Review A lot happened to me in 2013. I moved out of the Toy Room and up 280 where I secured a place of my own in one of the most expensive cities in
Bill Gates Funds A Smartphone Battery That Runs On Human Urine The scientists have demonstrated their wee-powered battery charging a smartphone. They've been awarded a grant from Bill Gates' foundation to develop the tech further. via Business Insider. Just a wee bit of energy.
This badass wears a pink tutu And he does it for his wife who is fighting breast cancer. Six months after the move, Linda, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She beat it, only to have it recur in 2006.
Passion is Bullshit Boom - That's the sound of people's heads exploding across Silicon Valley and wherever else (even my own). If you talk to a billionaire and you ask him, what was the secret to
A dollar an hour I wanted to spend some time givng back this holiday season and here's how I'm doing it. I'm making myself available for $1 for the first hour, $2 for the second, $3 for
4 Ways to get more work from Freelance Job Boards Job boards.. yuck, right? Filled with people wanting to be the next Mark Zuckerberg by shelling out $500 for a Facebook clone, crazies, and the unrealistic. However, there are some diamonds in the
The Third Star If you watched last night's game between the Washington Captials and the Philadelphia Flyers, you saw the brawl in the third period. If you have any sense of decency, you'll know that Ray
Using Puma with NGINX I want my Ruby on Rails applications to be fast, really fast. Typically, during the prototyping stage, I tend to use Heroku for quick deployment (I still think that's a great solution during
This is Ghost and I'm giving it a try I've built my own blogging platform 3-4 times (I can't exactly remember) such as Smple: http://blog.mattg.me However, I think I've found my match (and probably something far better that's actively
