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 »
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 »
Why are you so afraid to try new things?
Imagine you want to do something other than what you do for a living now. For example, you are an engineer, but you want to be »
Why won't anyone buy your product?
Do you like to wait in lines? I don't and that's why two years ago a couple friends and I wrote an application that allowed restaurants »
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 »
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 »
How we increased chat performance by 10x without writing any code.
There is a huge problem with the internet in 2014. Thanks to the advancements in technology, primarily by Facebook, everyone expects the web to work in »
It is time to liberate the mobile ecosystem.
Within a few short years we’ve gone through browsing on the desktop to spending countless hours on our phones. Despite all the negativity of spending »
The best city to start a company
Nowhere on Earth are there so many investors, companies, money and hustle per square foot as there are in the Silicon Valley. But does it mean »
Make My Logo Bigger
While working on Scoutzie.com, I noticed that in cases when clients and designers get upset at each other, often that is a direct result of »
Clipper, the Caltrain enemy
If you live in the Bay area and often commute to San Francisco, Caltrain is probably your best friend, but the friend has a powerful enemy, »
The best time to start is now
Nspire.org is a Canadian non-profit student-run organization focused on encouraging entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation. As an alumni, I had a pleasure of sharing a few »
Identity is broken
A couple of day ago I was setting my mom with a new Dropbox account. She is not great with technology so we were screen-sharing while »
Dear Seattle: Let's shut up and start building some companies.
This is a followup to a post from GeekWire, entitled "How do we make the Seattle startup ecosystem stronger?" First, let me tell you why I »