Monthly Archives: October 2011

4am.

October 30, 2011 – 2:15 pm

I have always been a morning person. I love mornings.   One of my favorite quotes this year comes from designer James Victore:   “We’re like the army. We get more work done by 9am than most people do in a full day.”   This quote made me instantly think of the title, “Morning Warrior.” [...]

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A Retrospective: Part 2

October 23, 2011 – 4:57 pm

Adversity to Happiness   Excerpt: “All our core stories are about what happens when human beings and adversity collide. From those moments tragedies unravel and greatness is spawned. Adversity both destroys and elevates. It both strangles and sparks life.”   Update: I feel like this quote explains life in the startup world very well. Adversity [...]

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A Retrospective: Part 1

October 16, 2011 – 2:46 pm

This is part one in a series where I will go back through my all my blog posts and write status updates to every single one. Hopefully looking back on my thoughts for the past year will help illuminate what I was thinking then, as well as what I should be doing now. Enjoy.   [...]

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It’s Real

October 9, 2011 – 4:14 pm

We just wrapped up an amazing week at Code Academy, and the main thing that keeps going through my head is:   It’s real.   All the planning, meetings, documents, early mornings and late nights came down to Monday, October 3rd and seeing all those faces in the lobby who were excited to join us [...]

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The Tools of Happiness

October 2, 2011 – 12:56 pm

A few days I was able to get a brand new 13-inch MacBook Air. However, the beauty of this purchase wasn’t the fact that it was just a beautiful machine, it was the excitement over changing the way I interact with my computer. For the past five or six months I have envisioned a laptop [...]

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