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Magical streets in San Francisco
I was recently asked for neighborhood tips by someone who is moving to SF. Here are some of my favorite San Francisco spots – beautiful, livable streets near parks and good restaurants: Cole Valley,...
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The Perfect Startup
People in startups often talk about how much fun it was during the early days, when everyone was on the same page and things moved quickly. Can the speed and simplicity of that early, perfect-startup...
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Bose Frames
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten excited by a gadget, but I’m really enjoying these Bose Frames I got a few days ago. They look and feel like regular sunglasses, same weight, nice enough materials,...
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Some of these quarantine home videos are delightful and remind me of the early days of the internet when people didn’t care so much about looking professional or monetizing their content: Quarantine...
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Welcome
Popular posts from over the years: – Five Reasons Why Your Company Should Be Distributed: A pitch for why distributed, or remote, teams are great. – The Perfect Startup: Can a large company be as fun...
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I worked for a distributed company with hundreds of remote workers around the world for 10 years. The question I was consistently asked the most from people outside the company, especially in the...
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A childhood memory, revisited
When I was a little boy in Switzerland, maybe 5 or 6 years old, my dad took me to visit the studio of a well known local artist. Her name was Ursula Schneider (no relation), and I remember being...
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Old Car Racing Photos
My niece is scanning old family slides and discovered a stash of cool old car racing photos that my dad must have taken sometime in the 1960s in Switzerland:
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I use the Wayback Machine quite a bit. Here’s what WordPress.com looked like way back when we first started working on it. The Wayback Machine is part of the Internet Archive which I got to visit...
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