About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’m a big fan of buying Pragmatic Programmers books with their the accompanying PDF. Yesterday, I popped over to their site to check for updates and noticed they’ve added .epub and .mobi (Kindle) to their electronic publication format options. Such a huge win, thanks to everyone at Prag Prog that made this possible. Now, perhaps …
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“I got a Kindle just over a week ago. It has changed the way I think about reading. I have a couple dozen books on it and I go back and forth between them in a way that I have never done with books. I am in the process of reading about six books in …
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This weekend I made some significant head way on one of my key 2009 projects: Kernest.com. Right now, Kernest is also the most likely candidate for my 5 minute Ignite Mpls presentation.
I’m confident the past couple years will be discussed and dissected by economics students for decades to come. Here’s just two graphs visualizing the monetary movement that have made my jaw drop: In both of them, there’s little to no movement for 5 years. Then…WHAM! It doesn’t really matter what these graphs measuring – the …
I was baffled by uproar from the Stewart v. Cramer bit a few days ago. I got the sense that I misunderstood what Cramer did on his show (attempt to time the stock market). Stewart made it seem like Cramer was driving the ambulance, rather than simply chasing it. Then I remembered that Stewart’s show …
I do an awful lot of reading that isn’t on “books”[1] and Amazon Kindle has quickly become where I send PDFs by default – just like audio and video files get sent to iTunes by default. And, after a couple weeks with the Kindle, I’m confident it is a new medium requiring a new interaction …
Bull Markets are a Lazy Way of Measuring Happiness
RE07.US continues to make me smile. Last night’s update added a couple neat things; URLs now auto-expire after 5 minutes, yes, there’s also a timer. Usage data; referer, user agent, etc is now being captured. and finally, I’m testing out the RE07.US javascript widget for displaying the RE07.US link on your blog. I’ve got some …
PREFACE: This post was sitting in my drafts since July, and it seemed to go nicely with the co-working post, so I hit publish. After we returned from a refreshing holiday weekend1 at the in-laws, Cooper asked why we came home. “Grandma, Grandpa, and Papa all have to go to work on Monday.” “Where is …
UPDATE 27 May 2009 New url for this effort: TwinCitiesCoWorking.org Earlier this week, I had a fairly thorough conversation with a St. Paul-based serial entrepreneur exploring starting a co-working business. I’ve been writing about the “co-working” / “work club” concept off and on for a while now (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Bonus) and …
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