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Jan 4

Let your role models guide you and your curiosity drive you.

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…

Personal Growth

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Feb 21, 2021

Preparation enables Surrender

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. …

Preparation

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Preparation enables Surrender
Preparation enables Surrender

May 29, 2020

What’s a paranoid child to do during COVID-19?

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…

Covid 19 Testing

4 min read

What’s a paranoid son to do during COVID?
What’s a paranoid son to do during COVID?

Jul 23, 2019

Solving a Pervasive Problem with Existing APIs

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. …

API

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Solving Pervasive Problem with Existing APIs
Solving Pervasive Problem with Existing APIs

Oct 18, 2018

Python 3.5, Flask, Apache2, Mod_WSGI3 on Ubuntu 16.04

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: …

Ubuntu

2 min read


Jul 10, 2018

Inflammation: the hero and villain we don’t acknowledge

“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…

Health

3 min read


Mar 27, 2018

Strategies to maximize your flow state

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…

Productivity

6 min read

Strategies to maximize your flow state
Strategies to maximize your flow state

Feb 22, 2018

4 steps to fail at anything

Wait… what? Why would I want to fail? There are an endless number of quotes, motivational sayings, videos, etc that preach how failure is the path to success, you just have to get back up and learn, yadda yadda yadda. Most of us are familiar with the phrase “fail fast”…

Startup

4 min read

4 steps to fail at anything
4 steps to fail at anything

Feb 16, 2018

Roadmapping to minimize risk

By now I’m sure you’re familiar with Lean Development and how to apply that same iterative process to anything, including your own life. But something I’ve always struggled with is leveraging these lean methodologies to produce tangible, data-driven results. Lean development preaches early feedback, accelerated learning, and MVP production, but…

Product Management

3 min read

Roadmapping to minimize risk
Roadmapping to minimize risk

Feb 14, 2018

5 steps to maximizing your odds of startup success

I’ve built businesses and failed. I wanted to build a business to make healthcare more transparent. Two years into development, I figured it was too difficult for two college students to tackle. I wanted to make it incredibly simple for social media influencers to design and sell their own products…

Startup

7 min read

5 steps to maximizing your odds of startup success
5 steps to maximizing your odds of startup success
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Product Manager, Software Engineer, Problem Solver https://ethansteininger.com

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