384 days ago I wrote my first morning pages on 750words.com Since then I have: written 315,026 words (or about 7 novels) spent 12 minutes on every day’s words written an average of 820 words a day mentioned sex 408 times mentioned tea 503 times used 1402 curse words Writing the words every day is awesome. It’s [...]
Last Friday I found myself in Google’s London HQ, talking about cool problems with a bunch of engineers. The so called “onsite interviews”. The saga started a few months ago with two phone interviews. Then Google sent me a “What to know in onsite interviews” email. And here I was, completely unprepared, having the time [...]
We are on the brink of a huge cultural shift. As governments worldwide flop around trying to Fix The Economy ™ and make sure we all don’t starve to death … … there are individuals spending trillions of dollars pushing the envelope of humankind’s achievement. The whole of humankind. Not just padding their pockets. Things that a [...]
Google has turned into one of those “Yeah we’re just like Facebook, but with a cleaner design and without annoying ads. Can you invest half a million dollars mister VC? kthxbai” startups. This is a company making self driving cars for fuck’s sake, they should know better! Just look at the screenshots. Related articles [...]
The problem with RSS (aside from only being used by nerds) is that it is almost untrackable. Sure there’s Feedburner and Google Analytics can tell you how many people came to your blog specifically through clickthroughs. But when you’ve got the whole post right there in your reader, why would you ever want to clickthrough to [...]
There are 845 million active users on facebook. There are 500 million twitter accounts. There are 100 million users on Google+. Of all those people only one is Swizec. Three other profiles do show up when searching for “Swizec”, but they don’t have the account name registered. Nor the domain name. In Slovenia, there are [...]
My language brings all the geeks to the yard, And they’re like “It’s better than yours” Damn right, it’s better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge Programming languages – the second favourite thing for geeks to fight about (right after code editors and IDE‘s). Everybody knows Java sucks, that PHP [...]
A whole industry is actively conning us. But they get away with it, because we can’t get away from them. No, I’m not talking about Facebook or Google or Microsoft or Apple. That’s child’s play in comparison. Nope, not copyright and patent trolls either. I’m talking about the business model used by the razor blade, [...]
This is a guest post by Jan Pierce - a 4th grade teacher who has over 20 years of experience in the classroom. Her interests include educational technology and online learning. She also owns the site Elementary Education Degree for students interested in earning a degree in elementary education. 1. Ego – This is an essential [...]
Stypi is a collaborative text editing tool that came out of YCombinator a couple months ago. It’s supposed to be filling a blank left behind Etherpad when it chewed up by Google and spat out as Wave. Though I’ve never used Etherpad and have only seen Piratepad once or twice I’ve come to rely on [...]
