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Lucid Dreaming for Fun & Profit

community, mind, public-speaking, sideprojects12/17/2015

I gave a talk at Ignite 28 last week. This was my 2nd Ignite talk, and I wanted to do something that was fun & light the 2nd time around. It's on Lucid Dreaming, here it is: Transcript of the talk is below: - When I was a kid, I used to dream a lot about superpowers. As an adult, in the year 2002. was Read the article >>

AutoPilot

mind06/06/2013

Have you ever asked yourself: "Am I awake right now?" I have. Every now and then, I lucidly remember and relive a specific mundane moment from my childhood -- walking to the bus stop, backpack and red lunchbox in hand, and all of a sudden being overwhelmed by this feeling like "is someone else walking in my body?". Like my brain subconscious was playing tricks on me. I used to get panic Read the article >>

Physical Workspace Hacking; 6 tips to create a War Room.

mind05/31/2013

Like any good engineer, I work hard to maximize my impact. Relative to time invested, I want to accomplish as much as possible. So I feel it makes sense to invest some time in organizing my office into my war room. I have noticed how horrible the workplace organizational skills of some of my cohorts are. Especially engineers. Just because you're building in the digital world is no excuse Read the article >>

The Art of Non-Reaction

life, mind, technology01/06/2013

Tweet. Text. E-Mail. Instant Message. Ring. Buzz. Growl. Chime. By the time you are done reading this post, you've likely received multiple requests for your attention. Perhaps they came in the form of notifications on a shiny new Apple device. Or maybe they were interruptions from your office environment around you. If you are not in your office on your Apple device, perhaps Read the article >>

Situational Awareness

leadership, mind, startups09/28/2012

Software development is a somewhat abstract process and, often, estimating the path from feature ideation to completion is an exercise in guesswork. An unfortunate fact of life as a web engineer is that building blocks involved are often undocumented, unsupported, incomplete, and/or convoluted. If, like me, you work in a distributed environment, your different team members surely have different Read the article >>

Engineer Mind

essays, mind07/14/2012

Foremost, stop yourself from distractions. Study your change request, first, as a user of your product. Do not forget that before you were an engineer, you were a user. Read and re-read the objectives and their supporting data, let them marinate with your conception of your product. Open your browser, type in your products URL & immerse yourself, but only with your user mind. Understand the Read the article >>