relationships Existential Week We're near the end of Boulder's annual cloudy week. It's a nice change of pace from the constant sunshine, but it always produces an odd lens through which life gets considered. I'm looking forward to some sunshine; go away clouds! Over the
photography Another Day In Pictures Fun day around town with friends and my 1.2f 50mm prime lens. Off to school.Breakfast with Ro Gupta.The man the myth the legend Lloyd Tabb passing through Boulder.David Cohen... "Cincy Baby!" #startupcincyDuer Reeves expounding upon Weather Cloud.Boston marathon and Finance/Accounting ass kicker
music Rant On Music Listening: Library Bifurcation, Offline Listening, and Bitrates Listening to music is hard again. Library Bifurcation To listen to all the songs I like, I have to have some of my music in iTunes, and some of it in Rdio (I pay the $15/mo and always have). Once I decide which music I want to listen to,
colorado Colorado, Legalized Cannabis, and Parenting It's been a few years now since Colorado legalized recreational cannabis growing/use. I have friends and relatives in States/Countries that haven't legalized it yet, and I get questions from time to time from them about what life is like here given that it'
Orrin Keepnews On Technical Leadership? Orrin, who recently passed away at 91 years of age, was an award winning Jazz music producer. As I was listening to this 1980's interview with him conducted by Terry Gross with NPR, his words about music production perfectly described how I've always viewed my role
photography Week In Pictures Shot a full week's worth of interactions this time. The 1.2 50mm Canon fixed prime lens is a thing of beauty; dang hard to get focus right at apertures that big, but when you do, the results are incredible. I put an 'X' at the
venture capital Investment Stages With so much startup investment activity these days, I find myself in regular discussion around valuations, stages of investment (and what those stages mean), and, from the entrepreneur’s perspective, when to engage various forms of investment. I’m a visual thinker, so I pulled some charts together that help
hardware Dear Hardware'ish Entrepreneurs: Some Questions With the explosion of all the affordable Consumer Electronics crap pouring into the world, I'm curious as to how the engineering end of it all is happening. I'm a s/w guy through and through. I have a grasp of physical, EE, materials, chemistry, and such,
handset Android: I Tried A couple of months ago I shelved Apple/iOS (iPhone 6) for Android (Sony Xperia Z3 Compact) [/ios-to-android-migration-complete]. I'd been a rabid Apple/iOS fan since the first iPhone. I switched because the iPhone 6 industrial design sucks, and iOS 8 was buggy. A few days ago I
photography My First Art Show Last night I took down my photography at Vic's [http://www.yelp.com/biz/vics-boulder]. Thank you to the entire Vic's crew who's generosity in giving me space to display my work for a month was tremendous (complete "thank yous" at the
security Secure Communications Like you, I was devastated to learn of the NSA (and associated services) finding there way into protocols and toolchains and algorithms that I've trusted for years. I was recently pointed to an open source project that gives me hope around securing my wire communications again; Streisand [https:
Day In Pictures; A(nother) Tuesday Catching up with Gayle.Mid-morning psycho-therapy with Jillian. #alignmentLunch with Kyle.Picking up the little one from school in absolutely gorgeous mid-afternoon Fall light.Talking ATLAS Institute [http://atlas.colorado.edu/] with Mark Gross over beers.Boulder discussion with Robert Garber over beers (2nd round). I screwed up focus badly
handset iOS to Android Migration Complete Punchline if you don't want to read further: I'm successfully using a compact Android phone (for now), but I want an iPhone 4S with NFC, running iOS. Well, I did it. For the first time since Apple released an iPhone, mine (latest, iPhone 6) now sits
iPhone 6 Suckage The iPhone 6 sucks and here's why. * you can no longer realistically use the phone with one hand. if you've always been a two-handed smartphone user, you'll probably be fine. however, if you, like me, struggled your way through the iPhone 5 body with
movies Science on Screen: The Social Network When the Dairy Center for the Arts [http://www.thedairy.org/] asked me if I'd host one of the Science on Screen shows I was intrigued. Once I found out what it actually meant, I was ecstatic! I've always had a penchant for dissecting the scientific
psychotherapy Purpose Awesome session with my therapist the other day. It's always the simple things that carry the most weight and have the most impact. "Is your life on purpose?" I didn't ask whether or not what you're doing has purpose, or whether or
mirrorless Sony Alpha 7 (A7) Review ISO 50, 24mm, f5.6, 1/30'I've spent a week shooting with the full-frame Sony Alpha 7. I spent a few months with the Panasonic GX-7, but wound up shelving it (the UI was a hard-to-use mess, and the sensor isn't full-frame (something I
photography Day In Pictures: Thursday Ellie at Boxcar pulled together a yummy Cortado to start things off.Rachel Ryle of Don't Stop Motion [http://dontstopmotion.com/] fame shares her creative experiences.Johnny telling me about hanging art in The Laughing Goat. He made me my first latte many many years ago.Nice girl
sales Hiring Your First "Sales Guy" Knowing when to hire your first sales person is the answer to one of those million dollar questions. We did a great job hiring our first sales person at Gnip (an Enterprise SaaS sales scenario), and this post describes how I think we pulled it off. There were three things
company Your Startup's Identity Crisis photo by Hans Richard Pedersen [http://hansrichardpedersen.deviantart.com/]Don't think about the following question; just answer it. Is your startup a Product company, or a Services company? If you answered "kind of both," you answered wrong. Only mature firms can handle both. If you'
programming My Daughter's First Software Creation This weekend my eight-year-old daughter built her first program using an iOS app called Hopscotch [https://www.gethopscotch.com/] which uses the Hopscotch programming language (kind of like Scratch). It's not a static or compiled language like C or Java (her dad's background :) ), but, variables (values)
photography big backups photo, music, and video libraries can get very big (in my personal scenario, photos alone push 1TB). they're also the kinds of libraries of content you never want to lose. they tend to contain content that took a long time to produce, was expensive to obtain (music), or
photography jud@gnip.com is no more I decided not to stay on through the acquisition [https://blog.twitter.com/2014/twitter-welcomes-gnip-to-the-flock]. I'm no longer with Gnip/Twitter. There was no drama around the decision. It was the right choice for me, though it is of course bittersweet. I have no plans to "do
photography Day In Pictures; Busy Wednesday The little one on the drive to school.She turned the camera on me while I was driving.Ellen at Laughing Goat CaféGreg Schwarzer talking mountain bike wheel diameters. Always a good conversation to start the day.Time with Jillian; it had been awhile.Gayle Doud running the show and
photography Day In Pictures; Last Tuesday Some last minute homework before heading off to school.First meet of the day; Jim Davidson. My old boss/mentor at AOL. Remains in my "top 3" list of people who have had the most impact on my life.Couple's therapy with Bruce Tift [https://www.
