The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Almost 9 years ago I was interning at TELUS in Vancouver. The pay was peanuts and the job was average, but the people were good and »
This is unfair!
Once upon in high school, a student came to a teacher saying that his grade was unfair. He worked hard, did everything just like his friend »
What is Tesla, really?
Tesla is a fantastic car company which for years has been subjected to judgments from people that just don't understand it. The arguments are always the »
Why Amazon will actually be the first trillion dollar company in 10 years.
Have you tried the Amazon Fire TV Stick yet? I don’t even have a TV at home, but a buddy who works at Amazon kept »
REIGNITE THE FIRE 🔥
I turned 30 yesterday, and on some abstract scale of life it’s supposed to be a BIG number, I am told. To me, what matters »
Inbox Zero Secret For Zero Dollars
I’ve been using this neat trick for months and it works great, 100% all the time with virtually no work on my end. No subscription »
My very first ultra - Cougar Mountain 50k
It was a fabulous day filled with joy, great people, and occasional pain. 7,500 ft of elevation throughout the course of 31 miles was the »
Squak Mountain Training
“Squak will kick you in the nuts!” - race director. As I was getting ready to run my first 50k race, I was advised it would »
Are you ready for a storm?
There is a good chance that Seattle and its surrounding area will get hit with a massive windstorm this weekend, the kind we have not seen »
On Listening
How do you listen to people when the noise and fanfare of your success begins to complicate your ability to form meaningful and authentic relationships with »
Are you making a difference?
Whether at school, at work, or in personal life, there is always more work to be done, but how do you choose what to work on »
How to be productive at work and to get fired for it
Do you use Slack? Great, it’s a terrific tool that makes organizational communication 10x more productive, keeping knowledge and discussion all in one place, integrating »
How to shoot your best performers in the head
Do you use Slack? Great, it’s a terrific tool that makes organizational communication 10x more productive, keeping knowledge and discussion all in one place, integrating »
The world without apps
Can you image the world without a web browser? I cannot, not anymore. A good half of my life has been spent in front of one, »
The real cost of not taking on VC money
"Don't take VC. Get a job, get paid, work on your company part time, and you will have full ownership!" - I've heard this sentiment many »
Delete all tweets with Ruby
I've been on Twitter since 2008 (@kirillzubovsky) and have since accumulated about 15.4K tweets, until yesterday that is. Wondering what the internet does with its »
The real cost of outsourcing work to the cheapest bidder
You can get an iPhone app developed for $800 on Elance — but is it worth it? Books like 4 Hour Work Week and similar blog posts »
What does it mean to be a startup co-founder?
Seth, a batch mate of mine from Ycombinator wrote a post about his tragic encounter with IRS, which forced his company into somewhat of a tailspin, »
How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar?
Learn to code! Do you hear this everywhere these days? From successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to government agencies to school teachers, everyone is singing the same »
How to downcase Mongoid tags
Turns out mongoid_taggable doesn't have an option to downcase all the tags, which leads to multiple versions of the same tag. Had to fix it »