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How To Write Online
Jul 2022
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M&Ms 64: Good Ideas
Jul 2022
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M&Ms 63: To Immortalize it Teach it
Jul 2022
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M&Ms 62: Happy Birthday
Jun 2022
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M&Ms 61: Mid-Year Earnings Update
Jun 2022
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M&Ms 60: Real Estate
Jun 2022
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Uncapping Luck
Jun 2022
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M&Ms 59: Uncapping Luck
Jun 2022
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M&Ms 58: The Last Mile is the Hardest
May 2022
27:
M&Ms 57: Shore Up Weakness, Discrepancy, and Bad HR Systems
May 2022
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M&Ms 56: Just Start
May 2022
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M&Ms 55: Hard Times
May 2022
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M&Ms 54: Long-term
Apr 2022
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M&Ms 53: Everyone is Scared
Apr 2022
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Assets & Liabilities
Apr 2022
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M&Ms 52: Taking Wins & Losses
Apr 2022
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M&Ms 51: Assets & Liabilities
Apr 2022
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M&Ms 50: Who am I writing for?
Mar 2022
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M&Ms 49: Attribution
Mar 2022
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M&Ms 48: Passion
Mar 2022
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Inspiration and Passion
Mar 2022
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M&Ms 47: Survive
Mar 2022
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M&Ms 46: Ukraine
Mar 2022
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Ukraine
Feb 2022
25:
M&M 45: Gravity
Feb 2022
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M&Ms 44: Feedback
Feb 2022
18:
When to Seek Feedback?
Feb 2022
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M&Ms 43: Procrastinate
Feb 2022
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Procrastination is signal
Feb 2022
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M&M 42: Mentor
Feb 2022
4:
Serious Jokes
Jan 2022
28:
Memes & Motivation 41: Serious Jokes
Jan 2022
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Memes & Motivation 40: Accepting It
Jan 2022
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One on Ones for Engineers
Jan 2022
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Memes & Motivation 39: Just Launch
Jan 2022
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Memes & Motivation 38: Lucky
Dec 2021
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Memes & Motivation 37: Happy New Year
Dec 2021
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Memes and Motivation 36: Give
Dec 2021
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M&Ms #35: Failure
Dec 2021
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M&Ms #34: Small Bets
Dec 2021
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From Big Tech to Big Debt
Dec 2021
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M&Ms #33: Transparency
Nov 2021
28:
Lessons growing on Twitter with a dormant account.
Nov 2021
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How to go from Zero to One making things on the Internet.
Nov 2021
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M&Ms #32: Memes & Motivation
Nov 2021
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Postcard 31: Hit Rate
Nov 2021
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Postcard 30: Show Up
Oct 2021
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Postcard 29: Specific and Niche
Oct 2021
29:
An Announcement: From UpHome to Nines
Oct 2021
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Postcard 28: Coding with Cakebread
Oct 2021
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Postcard 27: When the end is the beginning.
Oct 2021
11:
Don't Part-Time Your Dreams
Oct 2021
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Postcard 26: Competition
Oct 2021
3:
Put the world in zugzwang
Oct 2021
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Postcard 25: Opportunity
Sep 2021
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Postcard 24: Teaching
Sep 2021
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Postcard 23: When It Rains It Pours
Sep 2021
5:
The meaning of your life?
Sep 2021
5:
How to get the Results
Sep 2021
5:
How to Stop Pretending
Sep 2021
5:
Chess and Stress
Sep 2021
5:
I took a tumble today.
Sep 2021
5:
Leadership Debt
Sep 2021
5:
When does good work start to suck?
Sep 2021
5:
The number one mistake leaders make.
Sep 2021
5:
Gruntwork may be the best work.
Aug 2021
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Postcard 22: New Beginnings
Aug 2021
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Postcard 21: Plenty
Aug 2021
15:
The best way to grow is naturally.
Aug 2021
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Postcard 20: Better Late Than...
Aug 2021
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Postcard 19: Internet Friends
Jul 2021
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Postcard 18: Circle
Jul 2021
27:
It's All True
Jul 2021
23:
People on the Same Mission.
Jul 2021
23:
Don't Play With This Opportunity
Jul 2021
23:
When Writing, Do Repeat Yourself.
Jul 2021
23:
Life is a Multiplayer Game.
Jul 2021
19:
Postcard 17: Stamina
Jul 2021
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Stamina is Underrated.
Jul 2021
18:
The Avalanche of Doing Things.
Jul 2021
18:
The Importance of Hard Things
Jul 2021
18:
The thing about advice: An anti-advice essay.
Jul 2021
13:
Single Points of Failure in our Lives
Jul 2021
12:
Postcard 16: Reinvention
Jul 2021
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Why I am Reinventing myself again.
Jul 2021
10:
Perfect Timing Feels Like I’m too Late.
Jul 2021
10:
We can't stop people from messing up.
Jul 2021
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Conventional Wisdom leads us astray
Jul 2021
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Don't Mess With the Current Meta.
Jul 2021
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Postcard 15: Growth
Jul 2021
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Why do Groups Haze?
Jul 2021
5:
The Paradox of Leadership
Jul 2021
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Easy to Grow, Hard to Master
Jul 2021
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A lesson on leadership: One hand washes the other.
Jul 2021
2:
Last mile problems: The last mile is the hardest
Jul 2021
2:
Writing and Programming
Jun 2021
30:
What is Growth Engineering?
Jun 2021
29:
When to remove a bad apple
Jun 2021
28:
Postcard 14: Grit
Jun 2021
28:
How to lead with no backup
Jun 2021
26:
Four life-changing realizations
Jun 2021
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Postcard 13: Time
Jun 2021
21:
Just Enough Time
Jun 2021
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Postcard 12: Mastery
Jun 2021
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Postcard 11: Engage
May 2021
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Postcard 10: Prolific
May 2021
24:
Pareto's pea pods have more to teach us.
May 2021
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Postcard 9: Sunny Days
May 2021
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Postcard 8: Useful
May 2021
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Life or Death
May 2021
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Postcard 7: Helpful
May 2021
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What have I done for you lately?
May 2021
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Postcard 6: Vacation
May 2021
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What happens if we squeeze too much?
Apr 2021
26:
Postcard 5: Play
Apr 2021
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How to build a great engineering team from the ground up
Apr 2021
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Postcard 4: Instincts
Apr 2021
18:
It's a Savage World
Apr 2021
12:
Postcard 3: Leverage
Apr 2021
11:
Love Boredom, Love the Grind
Apr 2021
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Postcard 2: Incentives
Apr 2021
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Rage Driven Development
Mar 2021
31:
From House Hacking to House Stacking
Mar 2021
29:
Postcard 1: Hello From NY
Mar 2021
27:
New York after the Virus
Mar 2021
23:
From Stringed Cans to the Khala
Mar 2021
19:
Equity and Risk at Startups
Mar 2021
16:
House Hacking the American Dream
Mar 2021
11:
Dissecting Failure
Mar 2021
10:
Automate the Rental Home Middlemen
Mar 2021
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What do you do?
Aug 2020
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It's time to get some wins.
Jul 2020
29:
After the bug, the RCA.
Jul 2020
24:
Realestate Investing for Engineers
Jul 2020
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Whose idea's influence you?
Jul 2020
13:
No Podcast Yet
Jul 2020
13:
Women and diversity in tech.
Jul 2020
10:
Where to blog? Medium, substack, WordPress, Ghost, or roll your own?
Mar 2019
11:
How to Recruit and Retain Great Engineers
Sep 2018
10:
The Design Review
Jun 2018
26:
Principles for High Growth Products
Dec 2017
7:
An Exemplary Life
Oct 2017
23:
eCommerce and Advertising on the Blockchain
Jun 2017
29:
eCommerce on the blockchain.
Feb 2016
4:
The Jet Engine we built.
Dec 2015
25:
F# Powered Realtime Dashboard.
Oct 2015
15:
Startups as just a "buzz" word for engineers.
Jul 2015
15:
F# for the backend.
Oct 2014
18:
Let's "Marry Up" Angular to .NET
Sep 2014
13:
Software Engineers should all learn JavaScript.
Jul 2014
23:
Web API 2.0 Service with a Java Client.
Jun 2014
20:
A lightweight shopping cart web application in ASP.NET MVC 5.
Apr 2014
8:
ASP.NET MVC and Google Street View / Static Maps API's.
Apr 2014
1:
Building Realintory - Part 1
Mar 2014
28:
Beware of recruiters.
Mar 2014
17:
Perseverance and Burning out.
Mar 2014
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In the spirit of doing.
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