Archive for 2014

Woohoo! New ColorWare mouse arrived. This thing is so awesome. Thinking of getting my Macbook Pro painted by them.

Apparently it is bring your screaming toddler to work day at Starbucks.

Decided to fire up the original Spyro and play it through. Supposed to be working on the Android project.

I know I am late to the party on this one but the Microsoft Windows Phone app store is a total mess.

It is fascinating to me how many people want a percentage share of something once the product is making money and gaining traction. Where the hell were you when the hard work at the beginning was being done?

Unpaid work. It’s a lot like paid work but you get to tell the client to go boil their head when they start making unreasonable demands about how you spend your time.

If you are working on a startup and you are not consumed by the work as though you are on a vendetta to avenge your Father’s untimely death then you’re probably not serious about succeeding.

People who want to protect their ideas with an NDA usually have nothing more than the idea to protect.

Careers are built on showing up.

I don’t mind you thinking about launching a startup, with me as your technical cofounder, but if you are going to try and convince the investors to bet on the jockey could you at least give the jockey a horse.

TV is a distraction and I find the people who watch TV to also be a distraction.

There are few times that being stealthy in business is worth it, launching your start-up is not one of them.

They say that just an idea is worthless – but worthless is too simplistic a word to encapsulate an idea without execution.

Life is built on experiences, not possessions.

People who worry that I will steal their idea obviously have very few ideas of their own and so each one must be preciously guarded.

In the signal-to-noise ratio of execution, ideas are very weak signals usually masquerading as noise.

Sleep is for people who don’t ship.

Ex-client: “We’re going to need the source to the project.” Me: “You haven’t paid the last four invoices and my attorney has sent to you multiple registered letters you haven’t responded to.” Ex-client: “You should take payment up with my CFO, I just need the source code otherwise the CEO is going to be angry.”…

If you watch a lot of TV you are wasting, you’re life watching someone else’s dream.

I’ve yet to meet the man who didn’t want to be a politician.