Just one year ago yesterday, Neal and I officially declined working on President Obama’s re-election campaign. I was thinking about writing a post explaining more on why we did what we did, but then I decided to go back through my posts. The beauty of writing posts each week recapping what is currently going on [...]
5,000
May 13, 2012 – 1:06 am
Earlier this week I finished my 5,000th pomodoro! For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Pomodoro Technique, it is a time-boxing productivity technique that helps you focus on (and complete) your tasks. It works like this: 25 minutes of focus on a singular activity, then take a 5 minute break. After the 5-minute [...]
One Step
May 6, 2012 – 6:36 am
“One step, one step…” The beauty of the human mind is that it thinks it can do anything. The truth is we usually don’t come near to what the human mind thinks we can do. We are left trying to do 15 million things at once, when in reality we can only do one thing at [...]
272
April 29, 2012 – 3:20 am
This number represents the days in a row that I wrote 750 words. From July 6th, 2011 to about April 9th, 2011 I wrote at least 750 words everyday on 750words.com. First it started with one day, then one month. Then it got to the point where it was automatic. The first thing I would [...]
Year One at Code Academy
April 21, 2012 – 5:44 pm
This weekend marks one year since we picked the name Code Academy for our startup. While we started with the idea of “Rails school” back in March, April 20-22, 2011 highlighted a critical point in our lives. For all the crazy things that have happened over the past year, I feel that the best way [...]
GTFOMI
April 15, 2012 – 4:51 pm
This is a really simple guide to improving your email productivity sincerely entitled GTFOMI. What is the GTFOMI? If you are reading this, I want you to repeat this. GET THE FUCK OUT MY INBOX! Doesn’t that feel good? Here are the rules: 1. GET THE FUCK OUT MY INBOX! – Never look at an [...]
Blogging and Learning: Keys to Being Successful at CA
April 8, 2012 – 4:19 pm
The Code Academy staff has been hard at work for the past week to make Spring Quarter the best quarter yet. With this blog post, I would like to highlight two keys to being successful at Code Academy. Obviously, there is a lot more to share, but I have learned not to throw too much [...]
Storylines
April 1, 2012 – 5:00 pm
The NCAA Tournament, the greatest sporting event of all-time, is great because of the underlying stories it brings to the limelight. These stories, talked about between each game, add extra meaning to an already-meaningful matchup. When deciding which teams to pick in this year’s tournament, I tried to pick the most interesting storylines. However, many [...]
Outcomes
March 25, 2012 – 4:27 pm
This weekend, I made an emergency trip home for the funeral of Ralph Lenior Jr., a cousin of mine who died earlier this week of a heart attack. While it’s not uncommon to have a heart attack at age 49, to say this was an unexpected death is a large understatement. I still remember my [...]
Madness Sense
March 18, 2012 – 4:15 pm
March Madness. 64 (or 68) teams battling it out for college basketball immortality. Billions of dollars are spent betting on teams, millions of brackets are made even with the President getting a special on ESPN each year to go through his! But more than any of the money that is won or lost, it’s all [...]
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