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Everybody Else is a Moron, and Other Reasons to Start a Company

PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY THEY WANT TO START A COMPANY. Nobody ever spends years wishing they could run a company, or track key performance indicators over several quarters for a company. I don’t think I’ve ever even heard someone say that their dream is to lead a company. People are […]

adminJanuary 9, 2015

CS198 and Section Leading Your Life

THE LEFT ONE! NO! NO! THAT’S TOO FAR LEFT! SECOND FROM THE RIGHT. SECOND FROM THE RIGHT NEVER FAILS! PICK THE MIDDLE ONE! The Stanford CS106 Section Leaders are having their weekly staff meeting, and the Door Prize is being awarded. […]

adminDecember 9, 2014December 9, 2014

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Grocery Delivery Faceoff – Amazon Fresh, Instacart, WalmartToGo, Safeway

tl;dr: Use Amazon Fresh for your grocery delivery, or Instacart if you’re a hipster. Disclaimer: I have friends who work at Instacart, but I have no loyalty to them, or to any friends really. Over the past several months, our household has […]

adminApril 22, 2014

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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

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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

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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

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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, 2013May 28, 2025

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