January 2012
6 posts
A serious productivity question
A serious poll: Are you more productive (and able to finish everything you need to finish) when you have your day scheduled completely or when you leave your schedule open for free time throughout the day?
For instance, I have the following I need/want to complete on any given day:
Respond to emails.
Contact current users for feedback.
Contact potential users.
Write code.
Read and digest...
“What is Detroit‘s Brand?
If you’re not from there, you might only think of...”
– Detroit’s Brand Is More Than The Sum Of Its Advertising
Yes. YES. YES!
How you know you have great investors
I’m extremely lucky. I have great investors. Every day, I learn a ton about every topic imaginable from an active, experienced, smart, humble, and just plain awesome Chris DeVore. He’s not in some posh corner office or playing golf; he sits out in the same open space approximately 4 feet from where I sit.
Chris just closed an $8M fund for Founder’s Co-op. When the news was...
Stale code
Developers talk often of code smells: cues that might mean your code isn’t written as well as it should be. There’s also a general notion that the best code never needs to be touched after being written. It’s so perfect that there are no bugs and it works for years without intervention.
I assert that, in a living and growing application, code which never needs to be touched...
3 simple rules for 2012
I decided to come up with 3 simple rules to live by in 2012.
Be a good person (have a strong moral compass).
Work hard.
Don’t take life too seriously. (You’ll never get out alive… thanks, Van Wilder.)