Here’s my ongoing list of homebrew beer ideas that seem like interesting explorations. If you know of existing beers or recipes that explore some of the ideas below – leave a comment. Thanks. A non-Stout coffee Beer- Most compelling combination thus far: Monsooned Maibock Basic Brewing ‘brewing w/ coffee’ podcast mentions the monsooned malabar. An …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
What Were You Doing?
“I shut down a whole bunch of experimental Twitter apps. I feel a phase ending. I don’t see Twitter as my platform.” – Dave Winer In my work to bring Cullect back from hiatus, I’ve been doing a full code review and asking myself what should stay, what should be fixed, and what should go. …
First Crack #125. Open Font Licensing with David Crossland
David Crossland (Cantarell font family, Open Font Library) and I dive into font licensing – specifically open font licensing – and the cultural benefits of open licensing. Links and topics we mention: Open Clip Art Library Creative Commons and the CC0 License GNU Public License with Font Exception SIL International SIL Open Font License MIT …
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Twin Cities Co-Working Overview 2010
Dan Haugen wrote up a very nice overview of Twin Cities’ nascent co-working options. He got some great quotes from Zack Steven, Don Ball, Stephen Filing, and myself. Nice work Dan.
On-going List of Unpublished Books I’ll Happily Pre-Order
I only have one right now. “4. Alex Tabarrok should write a book reconciling his Randian youth with his current views. The book would begin by convincing social scientists that Ayn Rand’s views are at least plausible. Then he would explain which arguments he’s rejected, which ones he still believes, and why. Working title (there’s …
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Minimum Viable Product as 5-Words or Fewer
8 years ago or so, I was helping an client build out a new business unit. Their first step – add a checkbox to their ecommerce checkout process. Their question to me: “Where do we put the checkbox?” The entirety of this new business and the aspirations of the entire team – rolled up into …
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Cold Start #4 – How to Start Your Startup with Dan Grigsby
Dan Grigsby from MobileOrchard, discusses how he’s building a comfortable life for himself with a combination of projects, what’s lacking in the Minnesota tech startup community, and why that isn’t a problem. [55 minutes]
Mental Exercise: Price Free Retail Stores
This past summer, I entertained the idea of purchasing a couple tables at the community garage sale and loading them up with my basement full of stuff-in-need-of-a-better-home. And price everything at $0. Primarily, because I can’t imagine spending the time determining a price for each and every thing, labeling it, handling money, and risk justifying …
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Van Buren Family Christmas Card 2009
Like a lot of families, we’ve scaled down this Christmas. Happy (small)idays from the Van Burens.
2 Choices: Better or Shut Up
I’ve been saving Dave Slusher’s Punk and NaNoWriMo [mp3] talk until I could give it a proper listen. After a week of working through some very hard problems – and only still only seeing just a glimpse of a solution, this morning seemed like a good time. Around the 27 minute mark, Dave mentions the …