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3 Decades of Mac Memories, Year by Year

Last week marked the 30th anniversary of Macintosh, the adorable little machine that coined the phrase “Please insert Disk 1. Please insert Disk 2. Please insert Disk 1.” While they didn’t always have the cachet and widespread adoption of today’s Macs, these […]

adminJanuary 30, 2014

Context Optional startups Tech

How to Insult an Entrepreneur

“You are making a major mistake,” said the prominent startup exec who was trying to convince us to give up on Context Optional and be “acqui-hired” by his well funded and highly praised startup. To be fair, it was something that we approached them with, when we were basically […]

adminNovember 20, 2013November 20, 2013

Finance Random Tech

scanline – Command-line Document Scanning for Mac OS X

I scan pretty much everything — bills, old photos, mortgage documents, tax stuff, etc. It can be tedious, but it makes finding things much easier when you need to remember whether you filed in 83(b) election in 2006 or what exactly the […]

adminOctober 9, 2013

poetry startups

Oh, the Founders You’ll Meet!

Today is your day. You’ve got your degree! You’ll start your career as an interviewee. You’re ready to go. You know all your stuff. But maybe you’ll find that that stuff’s not enough. The people you’ll work for Are the Valley’s elite. […]

adminSeptember 18, 2013October 1, 2013

Context Optional startups

How to Foster a Company Culture Without Really Trying

If you ask most founders why they wanted to start a company, you’ll likely find that a big part of it had to do with building a team. The notion of creating a place where people can have fun, build a career, […]

adminAugust 13, 2013October 1, 2013

Context Optional facebook SpotDJ startups

Don’t Under-Pivot (How SpotDJ Became Context Optional)

Ah, the “pivot”. It’s not a failure if it’s merely a complete change in what you’re doing. You’ve heard about lots of high profile pivots, like Groupon (originally for charity fundraising), Flickr (originally a game), and PayPal (originally a type of stone […]

adminJuly 31, 2013October 1, 2013

Random Tech

KlepCal: The Fastest Way to Enter Items into iCal

I was looking for a really quick keyboard-driven way to get items onto iCal and decided to write something instead. 1 hour later, I introduce KlepCal. Just launch it using a keyboard shortcut or Spotlight, and type in a natural language time, […]

adminDecember 23, 2008

facebook

Facebook Regulates Your App's Emotional Effects

You know it’s going to be a good one when a Facebook developer blog post starts with “At Facebook, our passion for serving users…”, so I wasn’t particularly surprised by this declaration that Facebook’s new policy aims to regulate the emotion of […]

adminJune 8, 2008

Random

Crossed Wires

Marni: Brett Hilton recommended Baby Depot. Scott: Is that a web site? Marni: No, it’s someone I work with.

adminFebruary 1, 2008

startups Tech

Startup Tip #2) You Will Always Be One Step Away…

Especially early on, starting a company is about addressing one overarching concern that, if solved, will totally make everything so much easier. When I first started thinking about SpotDJ, I had a job. Being a loyal employee not looking to get sued, […]

adminDecember 8, 2007