“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” — Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder LinkedIn This quote extends to every aspect of business. From your hiring plan, to your product releases and even your sales methodologies, the first step should always be: produce just…

It’s 2 AM. You’ve been banging your head at the most challenging problem of your career. You promised the largest city in the country that you’d invent what will change how its’ population (and humanity) operates. Your reputation is on the line, and you can’t sleep. To your left are…

In the middle of the convergence between two edges of life (Mojave & Colorado deserts), sits an incredibly diverse landscape which supports the most bizarre life forms. This massive variety of shapes and colors makes it unique on a global scale. Joshua Tree is a forum of introspection for those…

Wilderness backpacking is all about survival. You bring all the resources you need for a multi-day adventure on your back. From food and water to shelter and comfort, it all comes down to what you’ve packed. …

I’m paranoid. Not just of my own health, but of my parents’. My mother has asthma, and my father, hypertension. These aren’t the most severe vulnerabilities and are quite common in the US, but still enough to make me worried about their health. To add, I’m a fair distance away…

Many successful platforms are simply abstractions of more complicated services. Think about how many SaaS products are just layers on top of API’s by Twilio, Spotify, Yahoo Finance, etc. …

Writing this because I’ve conducted an installation of Flask, Python 3.x, WSGI and Apache2 on an Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial machine so many times that I figured I’d create a step-by-step to codify it at least for my own struggles. Apache: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2 2. Python 3.x: …

“Suppression of inflammation is the most important driver of longevity” — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634197/ We’re always pursuing new ways of improving quality of life and I’d love to share with you some of our findings and advice to take advantage of this research. The latest feature of our research at Meports, is…

It’s 3pm and you just realized you haven’t eaten lunch. You’re so engrossed in whatever you’re doing (be it reading, programming or writing) that you forget about your basic human needs. By the time you realize this, you think: “damn, that was a good session”. This focus-induced tunnel vision is…