An Introduction to Interaction Flows – UX Planet
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As UX Designers, we put care and critical thought in our projects. Every interaction is planted with a specific purpose for the user. This is why it makes it that much more painful for us when the final developed interface does not align with our original vision.
(more…)Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve encountered most in my career: founder, executive, and employee. I’m leaving out investor because the best path to being an investor that I’ve seen starts with being successful (or failing) at one of these three first.
Below I’ll outline what I see as the pros/cons and useful strategies for each role.
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that 1:1s are one of the most important activities of being a manager. And yet we all know of managers who don’t do them, or do them so badly that they can hardly be called 1:1s at all. I’ve heard about managers who show up to the 1:1 and talk at their report until the time is over. I’m not sure if this is better or worse than no 1:1 at all. The worst manager I ever had, I dreaded our 1:1s so much that I used to get up an hour later on days when I would have to speak to him. My recollection of them was that there would be a terrible, awkward silence, which I would feel compelled to fill, but anything I said would be judged and used against me.
(more…)Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem?
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In February, college sophomore Trevor Hill stood up during a televised town hall meeting in New York and posed a simple question to Nancy Pelosi , the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. He cited a study by Harvard University showing that 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 no longer support the system of capitalism , and asked whether the Democrats could embrace this fast-changing reality and stake out a clearer contrast to right-wing economics.
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From Coding To Management To Leadership
This post was first published on CoderHood as From Coding to Management to Leadership . CoderHood is a blog dedicated to the human dimension of software engineering.
The skills required to code and the skills needed to manage people are very different. Being a good manager is also not the same as being a good leader. Moreover, being a good manager of developers requires being able to think like a developer.
(more…)Metrics-Driven Development is an emerging term developing from the
practices of continuous integration, continuous delivery, dev ops, and
agile software methodologies. This article serves to define what
metrics-driven development is, why it is useful, and how to use it to
drive software changes.Let’s start with a definition of [metrics-driven
development](http://blog.librato.com/posts/2014/7/16/metrics-driven-development) . Metrics-Driven Development (MDD) The use of real-time metrics to drive rapid, precise,
and granular software iterations.
This definition is simple and straightforward, but does leave room for
(more…)Three Powerful Conversations Managers Must Have To Develop Their People
The fog of war envelops every battlefield. When the plan breaks down amid the chaos and ambiguity, how do young Marines know what to do next? How can they take relevant action in the present when their carefully detailed plan has been rendered useless? Every leader communicates something called Commander’s Intent — effectively an end state or envisioned future of the battlefield when all is said and done. Understanding this vision, even the most green Marines can take decisive, relevant action right now. Managers should equip their people to achieve the same level of clarity in their careers, says Candor, Inc. co-founder and COO and former military leader Russ Laraway .
(more…)When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.
To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here .
Peering beyond scientific reticence.
It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. And yet the swelling seas — and the cities they will drown — have so dominated the picture of global warming, and so overwhelmed our capacity for climate panic, that they have occluded our perception of other threats, many much closer at hand. Rising oceans are bad, in fact very bad; but fleeing the coastline will not be enough.
(more…)Checked in at Denver International Airport (DEN) .
Home! Can haz sleep plz? — with Kelly
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Stephen was a hired gun at my first start-up. His contract started a year before I arrived, but he was long gone before I walked in the door. The story goes that when Stephen started, he found a small, solid team of five engineers, a QA lead, and a project manager. They were slowly and steadily going… nowhere. After two weeks of watching the team’s slug-like pace, Stephen was fed up.
(more…)If You Never Have Enough Time, Notice Where Time Leaks…Then Declutter Your Routine
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In the current smartphone age, you are highly accessible and distractible.
It’s an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. Time pressures are multiplying at a dizzying rate.
Time is a non-renewable resource, wherever you are, whatever the time of day. Try your best to plan it out and make the most of it.
(more…)Checked in at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) .
So exhausted. End of another amazing #a8cgm — with Kelly
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The one thing CEOs should delay as long as possible
Most CEOs are an urgent breed.
Every CEO I know laments how they need to instill a stronger sense of urgency in their company around every single thing, to get things done faster.
However, there is one very important thing they should have zero urgency around.
In fact, they should try to delay it as much as possible; ideally, forever.
(more…)10+ Startup Tech Leaders Reveal How They Prioritise Software Development
It turned out that one of the biggest challenges startup tech leaders are facing is prioritising software development.
In fact, 25% of the respondents said this is their biggest challenge, according to the State of Software Development report.
If it’s a challenge you’re facing then this post is for you.
But how do other tech leaders actually try to overcome this?
We decided to ask more than 10 tech leaders (mostly CTOs) about the practices they use to prioritise software development. The goal of this post isn’t to select one best way but rather to show different approaches you can select from or gain inspiration from as you come up with your own method.
(more…)Bungie’s 13-year battle with crunch culture
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Destiny 2 will mark the end of Bungie’s struggle to eliminate enforced crunch, according to head of engineering Luke Timmins, a process that started with the “brutal” experience of finishing and shipping Halo 2.
Speaking at Casual Connect USA this week, Timmins traced the evolution of Bungie’s approach to “people management” in his 16 years at the company, which he joined as a tester five months prior to the launch of Halo.
(more…)Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she said. “Do your parents drop you off?,” I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I’d enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. “No—I go with my family,” she replied. “We’ll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we’re going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes.”
(more…)10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How A Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
Credit: Nokia Bell Labs
By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors, A MIND AT PLAY
For the last five years, we lived with one of the most brilliant people on the planet.
Sort of.
See, we just published the biography of Dr. Claude Shannon. He’s the most important genius you’ve never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton.
(more…)Checked in at Denver International Airport (DEN) .
Here I come #a8cgm
The Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Become a Manager
TL;DR: If you are unsure whether you should pursue a career in management, ask yourself certain questions: Do you truly care about your co-workers? Can you enjoy working with people? Can you listen? Can you spot talent? Do you feel fully comfortable in your technical field? Only if you can answer a majority of these questions with “yes” should you switch to management.
(more…)Hearts and Minds: Shaping dev culture through technical training
Culture is a set of norms, implicit rules and values that a group of people live by. It entails what is right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable in people’s behavior. Culture is a living, breathing thing, constantly changing and evolving. Wix Engineering is proud of its dev-centric culture . It puts us at an advantage in recruiting and retaining top developers.
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I’m sad to hear that Ted Rheingold has lost his fight with cancer, and died on Monday . Through a pretty random turn of events, Ted was one of the very first people I met in the SF technology “scene”, back in 2005, after I moved to San Francisco. I attended the first BarCamp , and didn’t have a good way to get there. In amongst the communications about attending, Ted volunteered to give anyone a lift from SF down to the South Bay, so I accepted graciously, and grabbed a ride with him. We chatted all the way there and back, and on and off throughout the day. I remember Ted being open, energetic, passionate, and really light hearted about who he was, what he did, and what he valued. I can’t really imagine a better introduction to those days of the web, and to the community helping build it.
(more…)Checked in at Enterprise 5280 .
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The Biology of Productivity: How to Stay Motivated
Superb time-management skills are worthless when you’re feeling unmotivated, distracted or tired at work. Until robots take over our day-to-day workloads, our productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical well-being.
The expectation at work to remain competent, motivated and attentive for the entire workday puts a huge strain on our biological resources. Thankfully modern science has given us a better understanding of how our bodies work, which can help us leverage our physiology to work smarter.
(more…)What is the best predictor of when you’ll die? That seems like a hard—not to mention morbid—question, but, incredibly, study after study is showing that simple tests of physical performance are highly predictive of future mortality.
My favorite recent example is a study from Brazil that tracked just over 2,000 subjects age 50 and up. A 10 point score system was developed to assess how easily they could get up off the floor based on a sitting-rising test (SRT):
(more…)Inside Uber’s new approach to employee performance reviews
Uber SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey vividly remembers the day Susan Fowler published her blog post alleging workplace harassment and management issues came out.
It was Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017 — her dad’s birthday. And the company was also “literally thrown into shock,” she told me at Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco last week.
“I’ve literally never seen employees so shocked by something and so put off by something,” Hornsey said. “And I then decided, because I could see this hurt, I could see the shock, that what the company needed more than anything, honestly, was to be listened to.”
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Over the years, I’ve been so lucky to work on teams that support my growth. Most notably, I’ve learned so much from Percolate, Dropbox, and leadership coaches.
I’ve tried lots of growth frameworks and found the best ones promote self discovery and focus.
In recent conversation, I discovered many of my friends are trying to grow, but struggling to make progress. I dug deeper and realized, growth frameworks are not widely known or practiced.
(more…)Better Business Through Sci-Fi
Why are C.E.O.s and military leaders paying novelists to imagine the future for them?
Illustration by Mark Pernice
About five years ago, Ari Popper enrolled in a course on science-fiction
writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, hoping to distract
himself from the boredom of his day job as the president of a
market-research company. “It was, like, the best ten weeks of my life,”
(more…)Checked in at Biju’s Little Curry Shop .
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We Evolved to Run—But We’re Doing It All Wrong
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China hopes to be world competitive in track and field soon. Races during the National Games competition.
By Simon Worrall
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These days, running seems to have little to do with survival—it’s all about sport watches and burning calories.
But for our remote ancestors, the ability to run over long distances in pursuit of prey, such as ostrich or antelope, gave us an evolutionary edge—as well as an Achilles tendon ideal for going the distance. (Related: “Humans Were Born to Run, Fossil Study Suggests .”)
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Afternoon beers after a rough 4wd in, plus rain while setting up camp. Birthday weekend for @akires
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A few weeks ago, Erika and I joined some friends on the Colorado River for a repeat of a trip we took last year .
I got all my gear sorted out on Thursday afternoon/evening, then drove out to Fruita (our put-in point) on Friday morning. By noon we were all loaded up in our canoes and ready to hit the water.
This year’s highlight was probably the felon we ran into who claimed to be on the run. Seriously. Right when we started, we saw someone putting in on the other side of the river in a yellow kayak. Not too long later he caught up with us, and asked to borrow a phone. His story was confusing and rambling, but he claimed to be on the run from Federal Marshals, and was taking one last river trip before he was put away for 20+ years on a felony “paleolithic” offense, which apparently involved finding and trying to sell a dinosaur bone on federal property. The guy was wearing jeans and runners, and had nothing with him. Our guess is that he stole the kayak and was just making a run for it.
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Our doorstep canal.
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How to Run a Quarterly Product Strategy Meeting: A Board Meeting for Product
One of the greatest challenges for the Head of Product at a fast-growing startup is to maintain focus on product strategy, to enable good, fast consumer and data-driven decisions, and to pass on learnings across the organization as it grows. It’s easy when the company is a dozen people, but how do you scale the fast decision-making of startups when the company grows beyond fifty or a hundred people?
(more…)What To Do If Your Product Isn’t Growing – Initialized Capital – Medium
As a founder, product lead at Pinterest and PM for a couple products at Google , as well as a growth partner for Initialized Capital , I’ve seen many product teams struggle to grow.
Many products start out with a bang. Some find product-market fit with sustained growth. A few have gone through spurts of hyper-growth. But more often than not, I’ve seen most of them linger then fizzle.
(more…)Being Busy Permanently Reduces Your Capacity to Think Deeply and Creatively
The other day a friend mentioned that he’s looking forward to autonomous cars, as it will help lower the accident and fatality rates caused by distracted driving. True, was my initial reply, with a caveat: what we gain on the roads we lose in general attention. Having yet another place to be distracted does not add to our mental and social health.
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Even companies dedicated to continuous improvement struggle to stay on the path. Research suggests that’s because of deeply ingrained biases: We focus too much on success, take action too quickly, try too hard to fit in, and depend too much on outside experts.
These biases manifest themselves in 10 conditions that impede learning. These include fear of failure, insufficient reflection, believing that we need to conform, and inadequate frontline involvement in addressing problems.
(more…)If You Want to Be Creative, Don’t Be Data Driven – Microsoft Design – Medium
There is no inherent value in any piece of data because all information is meaningless in itself. Why? Because information doesn’t tell you what to do.
— Beau Lotto
As I write this I’m sitting in a small conference room on the second floor of an office building. The view from the windows is a paved courtyard down below roughly 25 feet from the building with some tables, chairs, and well-manicured landscaping. I can see that the sun is shining, and it looks like a lovely day. Based on that data, should I go work outdoors? Consider your answer, and we’ll come back to the question later.
(more…)Why we choose profit – Signal v. Noise
We’re outspoken about running a profitable company in an industry that so often eschews profits for potential. So why? People ask us why all the time. Why choose profit?
So I thought I’d detail some of the reasons why we designed Basecamp , our company, to be profitable as quickly and consistently as possible. And 17 years into it, we’ve been profitable for 17 years straight. Being profitable is a feature of our company (companies are products too).
(more…)The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis
This summer, a friend called in a state of unhappy perplexity. At age 47, after years of struggling to find security in academia, he had received tenure. Instead of feeling satisfied, however, he felt trapped. He fantasized about escape. His reaction had taken him by surprise. It made no sense. Was there something wrong with him? I gave him the best answer I know. I told him about the U-curve.
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Quick harvest this morning. #Cucumber, pint of #blackberries, some #swisschard and a ton of 3 different types of #kale.
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Corn, beans, and squash are called the “three sisters.” Native Americans always inter-planted this trio because they thrive together, much like three inseparable sisters.
Source: Companion Planting: Three Sisters | The Old Farmer’s Almanac
Hoi Ann. Loving it.
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Checked in at Birdcall .
Trying out the new place in the hood. Excited! — with erika
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Chilling in the river. #Colorado #Utah #river #canoecamping
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Union Pacific. Toot, toot. #train #unionpacific #colorado #canoecamping #camping #river #utah
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Tents in the darkness. #canoecamping #camping #tent #coleman
Posted on Instagram 10:47 pm, July 24, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f = { positions : { 785 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.862997046629’, ‘-105.08438988874’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.positions ) { gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.bounds.extend( gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.positions ) { gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.map, position : gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.map.setCenter( gmap_md6d7657b3574e59117ad5ae109a68f2f.positions[785] ); });
Day Two campsite. Incredible. #canoeing #canoecamping #colorado #utah #river #canyon
Posted on Instagram 10:42 pm, July 24, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0 = { positions : { 143 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.142171016667’, ‘-109.00057068333’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.positions ) { gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.bounds.extend( gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.positions ) { gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.map, position : gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.map.setCenter( gmap_m1013717c82ee4fd64bfab1f32935f3a0.positions[143] ); });
Checked in at Ratio Beerworks .
#colorado #canoecamping
Posted on Instagram 1:38 pm, July 24, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a = { positions : { 285 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.862997046629’, ‘-105.08438988874’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.positions ) { gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.bounds.extend( gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.positions ) { gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.map, position : gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.map.setCenter( gmap_m2f5f15c3d51a7676ffde46a6e97dd50a.positions[285] ); });
Still life of garden harvest. #vegetablegarden #harvest #zucchini #squash #summersquash #cucumber #tomatoes #beetroot
Posted on Instagram 9:01 pm, July 20, 2017
Checked in at Enterprise 5280 .
39.761688-104.979971
On Failure and Organization Resilience
Like many people in ops-adjacent parts of the internet, I had a lot of feels around this reddit post , where a new software developer trying to follow instructions to set up his development environment accidentally borked the production database and was summarily fired as a result. Dr. Richard Cook of SNAFUCatchers wrote a piece in response looking at different ways that organizations can respond to failure . The reddit story is a pretty clear example of what Dr. Cook calls “blame and train”, but he notes that this is not the optimal reaction to failure as it tends to lead to organizational brittleness. More positive reactions to failure can lead instead towards organizational resilience, and Dr. Cook encouraged me to share a story of what that could look like.
(more…)Reducing hours by focusing your job
In preparation for our 32-hour work weeks , I’ve been working with some folks on our team to help them more clearly define their roles. To achieve the same amount of work in less time, we have to make sure that we’re all working on the right things and that everyone is clear on their part in our combined success.
I’ve been using a process that we developed when Chris and I were trying to define our own roles. This really helps people in roles where the job is multi-faceted, like a Product Manager, a lead, etc. The end result we’re looking for is a clearly defined set of tasks and goals for each person on your team. Meaning, when hit a fork in the road, everyone knows which road to take because it was clearly defined ahead of time.
(more…)Amazon: The Company with a 100 CEOs Cannot Be Stopped
A company with a 100 CEOs can do anything.
Amazon appears to be a unique success when it comes to not just the success it has achieved but the diversity of businesses it has succeeded in — from online retail to web services, and the march continues into many, many new lines of business.
Almost every large, successful company struggles with growing beyond its core business. Oracle is great at selling software, Salesforce is great at cloud CRM, Apple is great at selling devices and they do an okay to good job of selling products and services that are complimentary — often through the exact same distribution channel.
(more…)the simplest and smallest (1kB) WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies
Source: jaredreich/pell: 📝 the simplest and smallest (1kB) WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies
What can you learn from 10 days without electricity?
At the time of writing, my electricity has just been switched back on after 10 days.
Thankfully, it wasn’t due to a lack of money or chronic apartment deficiency that we were out of juice for so long. It was simple mid-twenties idiocy — we forgot to pay the bill on time, and we paid the price (for all of you out there who are worrying about your adulting skills, don’t worry, I’m pretty sure I’m winning the “can’t function in the real world race” by at least a mile).
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Checked in at Café Miriam .
Cute new neighborhood cafe. Decent range of pastries, good coffee and friendly people. No wifi, so BYO for #cafeworking.
39.748322-104.960264
Everyone And Their Dog Wants An API, So You Should Probably Learn How To Build Them.
Source: *Build APIs You Won’t Hate ,*hat tip: Cate .
Checked in at Meyers Ranch Open Space .
First ride of the season 😱 — with Kelly, erika
39.5462263-105.2730915
Checked in at Dos Santos .
39.7433504-104.9691154
I went from sedentary academic to 100-mile marathon runner—thanks to the science of self-control
Most people have days they’ll never forget. For me, that day is April 26, 2011.
It was my first time appearing on National Public Radio. As part of the program All Things Considered , host Michele Norris interviewed me about my research that suggested increasing narcissism in pop music lyrics. Michele was curious, insightful, and put me at ease. When I left my office and walked to my car, I felt light as a feather floating across campus, free of care and worry. I had no idea that what would happen over the next 24 hours would upend everything in my life. That day would take me down a different path—one that included regularly running 100-mile footraces.
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Finishers #fjallravenclassicusa
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Ridgeline pathways at 12,500 ft #fjallravenclassicusa
39.4938756-106.111132
Posted on Instagram 10:16 pm, July 2, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910 = { positions : { 709 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.4938756’, ‘-106.111132’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.positions ) { gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.bounds.extend( gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.positions ) { gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.map, position : gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.map.setCenter( gmap_m5f8e33bf36f76065b2e9d7c96a685910.positions[709] ); });
Food break during one of the brutal ascents on day 3 of the #fjallravenclassicusa
39.4938756-106.111132
Posted on Instagram 10:00 pm, July 2, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901 = { positions : { 179 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.4938756’, ‘-106.111132’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.positions ) { gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.bounds.extend( gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.positions ) { gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.map, position : gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.map.setCenter( gmap_m89a4edc05e618a2221cc4218c414f901.positions[179] ); });
Ascending the bowl #fjallravenclassicusa
39.3973-106.106
Posted on Instagram 4:04 pm, July 2, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf = { positions : { 721 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.3973’, ‘-106.106’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.positions ) { gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.bounds.extend( gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.positions ) { gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.map, position : gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.map.setCenter( gmap_mb3e735676a6b80d58501ff7f37208ecf.positions[721] ); });
#fjallravenclassicusa views. #nofilter
39.4864-106.044
Posted on Instagram 9:19 am, July 2, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab = { positions : { 274 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.4864’, ‘-106.044’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.positions ) { gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.bounds.extend( gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.positions ) { gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.map, position : gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.map.setCenter( gmap_m78a595dd735df3389dd8a73725a673ab.positions[274] ); });
This week, I’ve been roaming the Colorado wilderness with 250 of my closest/unknown friends, participating in the second annual Fjällräven Classic, USA . I participated in the inaugural event last year , which conveniently fell during my 3-month sabbatical from work . At the time, I said that no matter what else was going on, I would definitely be attending again in 2017. As promised, when the 2017 Classic was announced, I immediately grabbed tickets, and this time even talked Erika into going.
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Icy ascent #fjallravenclassicusa
Posted on Instagram 9:23 am, July 2, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0 = { positions : { 45 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.4938756’, ‘-106.111132’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.positions ) { gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.bounds.extend( gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.positions ) { gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.map, position : gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.map.setCenter( gmap_m851f816329592eb12ca5174f5673cca0.positions[45] ); });
Checking in for the #fjallravenclassicusa. Super psyched!
39.500861-106.1535167
Posted on Instagram 10:20 pm, June 30, 2017 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77 = { positions : { 974 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘39.500861’, ‘-106.1535167’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.positions ) { gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.bounds.extend( gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.positions ) { gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.map, position : gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.map.setCenter( gmap_mb545b78f538082129ae976cf7631cf77.positions[974] ); });
Checked in at Copper Mountain .
So glad to be sleeping here tonight vs driving home after #fjallravenclassicusa
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#fjallravenclassic kickoff!
39.500861-106.1535167
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