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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Yes, and I believe the benefit of a native app shrinks every day.
Outsides
Everything has a price. At the last job where I was an employee – my immediate manager was always busy and happy to work long hours. Then, I observed that he didn’t really enjoy spending time with his family. Then and now, I see people commuting 45+ minutes each way, for decades, to live where …
Dayton’s Sales Tax Proposal is Bad for Minnesota’s Creative Economy
For the past 10 years I’ve owned and managed a small business selling consulting services to larger businesses. I’ve been fortunate that Minnesota’s business climate has allowed me to support my growing family and work with some great Minnesota businesses. While many of my clients have been based in Minnesota, many others have been based …
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Kubbchuck’s 2013 Loppet Tournament Recap
Over on the Kubbchucks blog I wrote up our 2013 Loppet tournament experience. Here’s a quick snippet: “Jim and Jamie readily cleaned up the 5 kubbs in the corner leaving the that lone sixth kubb for me and two batons. I took a deep breath, focused on the sixth kubb and threw – striking the …
3 Principles of Success for Independent Professionals
Garrick, Hi! I’ve heard about you for a few years now (originally from Richard Fink), and have enjoyed reading your blog posts. As a web designer who’s striking out on his own to learn programming and build his own business, do you have any advice? Cheers! – Josh For the past decade, I’ve been working …
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Catching Up
Reuters 27 January 2013: “‘IPhones are like Louis Vuitton handbags,’ said marketing manager Narisara Konglua in Bangkok, who uses a Galaxy SIII. ‘It’s become so commonplace to see people with iPads and iPhones so you lose your cool edge having one.” – Jeremy Wagstaff Me 6 months ago (1 June 2012):
Big Beer Year #2: Flanders Brown from Brewing Classic Styles
The second beer of the Big Beer Year is Jamil Zainascheff’s Flanders Brown in as described in his book Brewing Classic Styles. Well mostly. I made a couple malt substitutions based on availability and quantity tweaks to get closer to the numbers he specifies in the book. On the process side, inspired by my torn …
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When Not If
Renewing My Faith in the Promise of the Internet
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: How to Avoid Huge Ships I’m dating myself when I say this but… to me, the promise of the internet is a joke that everyone writes the punchline for. All the reviews on here – admit this. Even the pricing arbitrage bots get into the jokes – 3rd party pricing goes from …
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