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Parents, DRM & School Projects

Just posted this in Facebook, but want to post here too for broader audience. To Elementary School Parents out there: how are you dealing with your kid(s) pulling digital assets down from the network and using them in class projects/science fair presentations and such? when one of our

What Makes Us Tick: Online Social Ingredients

Six years ago I wrote a post about this [/holidays-and-communication]. I thought I'd revisit it as I've been talking about it a fair amount over the past few months. This post will be different obviously, but what's cool is that nothing has actually changed.

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Day In Pictures: Another Tuesday!?!

For some reason these apparently happen on Tuesdays. I thought they were random.? Getting ready for school with my little pea.My son, "ready" for school early. He was reading "Java for Dummies" with his spare time this morning.Mark crushing "drop-off" at school.

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When Your Customers' Customers Sell For You

Yesterday, one of Gnip's [http://gnip.com/] (a social media company) [http://gnip.com/] sales people forwarded an excerpt from a prospect to our internal all-company alias. In it, the prospect was reaching out to us because their customers/prospects were asking that they use Gnip's

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Day In Pictures: Another (Awesome) Tuesday

Today was full of great interactions. The evolution of this "day in pictures" thing has been interesting. People are falling into a few categories (to be expected). * People I know who are fine with their picture being taken (or at least tolerate it with a smile on). * People

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Bridge

After years of driving by this mysteriously elaborate concrete bridge just off of Boulder Canyon (Highway 119) [https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=39.981420%2C-105.454147&data=!1m4!1m3!1d1186!2d-105.4539466!3d39.9810417!2m1!1e3!4m14!2m13!1m12!3m8!1m3!1d97762!2d-105.2399775!3d40.0293099!3m2!

Charitable Giving: Cleft Palate Repair

As you consider where to make last minute end-of-year charitable donations, consider donating to a charity that focuses on cleft palate reconstruction surgury. There are many amazing causes to direct funds to, but year after year we contribute to cleft palate repair work because the completely life altering bang-for-the-buck is

Day In Pictures; A Tuesday

Started my day with Cliff Shaw (CEO of Mocavo [https://www.mocavo.com/]) to talk about money, servers, indexes, and parallel processing.Talked Partnerships with Gnip's Jack Harvey. I love it when we overlap in Boulder (he lives out East). Lunch with the super smart Dave Jilk who&

Passwords And Your Kids

I just read a post that a friend sent me about parents and social app/sexting awareness [http://bloodsweatcheers13.blogspot.com/2013/07/wake-up-and-smell-sexting-parents.html?m=1] . It's a pretty good post. I don't agree with all the parenting/oversight approaches she's taking, but

Day In Pictures; Busy Friday

Rob Hamilton recently joined the Gnip San Francisco office. He's in Boulder for a couple of weeks to learn the ways of the force. This guy knows how to do the worm dance move too boot.Scott Brave recently moved to CO and is sorting through his options

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Three Years With BPPV

Three years ago, roughly today, I was afflicted with something that radically changed how I exist in the world around me. [/my-brush-with-personal-disaster.html] While I’m still not 100% on diagnosis, it is/was likely BPPV [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo]. Year one was hell. The

Day In Pictures; My Life.

Today I toted my camera with me to all my meetings. Half of the subjects are people I've worn down with this exercise and are "used to" me taking pictures of them. The other half were surprised, confused, and a little self conscious. Today's

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Career Motivation And New Levels

A good friend just forwarded me this article about a chef we keep track of and his new restaurant [http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2013/09/first_look_acorn_opens_source_photos.php] . This quote hit me, and him, just right. > "Whenever I go to New York, I

programming

Should I Do This?

I've had a recent influx of conversations that have driven me back to a few tenants I live by. Thought I'd write briefly about them. If you're ever faced with a decision around whether or not you should invest time, money or energy in

photography

A Day In Pictures

Every now and then I like to take my camera with me everywhere I go during the day, and snap pics of who I spend time with. I couldn't capture three meetings this day because the other parties were too wimpy or shy (or both) to be shot.

Clocking Back In

I "return to work" next week after two months of "time off." It's been an interesting two months of being disconnected from something I'd poured everything I had into for five and a half years, with only a couple of notable chunks

outdoors

Calwood Parent Volunteering Experience

Long View LookoutI just got back from a two-night trip to Calwood [http://www.calwood.org/] just outside Boulder, CO. I was a Parent Volunteer for our 5th grade classes' adventure. It was the first time I'd really volunteered for something of this magnitude with the kiddos.

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NYC Helicopter Tour Amazingness

Lower Manhattan/Downtown Canon 6D, 17-40mm f/4L lens: iso100, 17mm, 0ev, f10, 1/100Last week my 7-year-old daughter and I took a 30 minute helicopter tour of New York City. I've been to NYC many times, but the tour from the air caused everything to fall into

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Connection, My Daughter, and a Subway

Today I had one of those moments as a parent where something profound comes over you. I don't know about you, but, I'm the kind of parent that doesn't have this happen too often. I'm amazed by my children all the time,

Which Code?

I was catching up with a longtime colleague and friend at one of my favorite cafes in San Francisco the other day. I'm always a bit amazed at how some things never change. Much of the conversation was around the same old shit. Non-competes and non-solicitation clauses (he&

Hassle

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day when we got off onto the topic of the adverse impact "hassle" can have on our lives. How often do you avoid doing something because of the hassle involved? I'm not talking about the the

psychotherapy

Psychotherapy, Me, and You

Jillian at the beginning of one of our recent sessions.Over the past few months I've found myself engaged in conversations about "counseling" or "psychotherapy" or "therapy" with an unusual number of people. The topic comes up from time to time generally,

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My 15 yr. Anniversary with Mozilla

about:mozilla Seeing everyone else's mentions/posts about Mozilla's 15 yr. anniversary got me thinking about my own experience with it. The software has had a huge impact on my life, my view of software, my view of the network, my view on security and privacy,

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Parenting & Technology Update

It's been awhile since my last update on raising kids in today's tech heavy world. Minecraft Total kid-world domination. The XBox is a distant memory and rarely used anymore by my 10 yr. old son. For at least the past year or so this is the

Gnip's Organization Evolution

Today timehop [http://timehop.com/] showed me a picture I took two years ago of a guess at an org chart that I thought Gnip [http://gnip.com/] (a social media company [http://gnip.com/]) might look like at fifty employees (approximately where we are at the moment). The timing