Every month at CodeHS we do a one-day all-day team hackathon. A core value for the company is teaching and learning, and as part of that, we like to always be creating teaching and learning opportunities inside and outside of the company. Everyone in the company participates. If you don’t know any programming this is … Continue reading Monthly Hackathons at CodeHS and Building CodeHS Lite
Here is the best way to start being more creative and complete with the work that you do: Write Everything Down. Whether you are managing follow-ups after an important meeting, catching that last crazy idea you had before you fall asleep, or coming up with a new insight that will help you close the deal, … Continue reading Write Everything Down
At the start of 2014 I made a New Year’s Resolution. I never could seem to keep my New Year’s Resolutions, probably for a host of reasons: too many, too complicated, forgot to do them, wrong ones—but this year I was going to complete them. So I made one New Year’s Resolution. Read a book … Continue reading What I Read in 2014
MySQL Doesn’t Install on Mac Yosemite 10.10 How to fix This website had the fix for me: http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-10-yosemite/ Summary was: Download the 64 bit dmg (only 10.9 was available, oddly when unzipped it said 10.8) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ Customize the install and uncheck the startup item Manually start mysql from command line and modify path in profile/bashrc … Continue reading MySQL Doesn’t Install on a Mac Yosemite 10.10
How I’m setting up my computer I’m going to try some things differently, and I’ll record how this goes. I lost an old computer, which was a huge bummer so: Turn on Find my Mac. Upgrade my iCloud storage because I’ve been out of space for months. Oops, before 1. I downloaded the Yosemite Mac … Continue reading Setting Up a New Macbook Air (… again)
What’s the story behind props A-L Hi there! Look’s like you’ve stumbled on my post about the propositions currently up for vote in San Francisco. I read the whole voter guide so you don’t have to (but you really should read that big 200 page pamphlet…), and will try and summarize the question, highlight a … Continue reading Jeremy’s Voting Guide to San Francisco Propositions
There have been many people who have previously attempted to answer this question. It’s been a very common question I’ve gotten in one form or another since going to Burning Man. It is also a surprisingly good question because Burning Man is a very hard event to describe. Many of the people who have previously … Continue reading What is Burning Man?
Getting the word out on the FCC proposal and net neutrality “If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring” Here’s a good comedy video getting to the heart of the issue of protecting net neutrality, and the problem with an FCC-sanctioned fast/slow lane, effectively allowing companies to negotiate faster speeds for … Continue reading If you want to do something good, put it inside something funny.
Here is an ordered ranking of the customer support experience at different companies that I am either a personal or business customer of. Being a user of customer support, it makes it even clearer how important it is for your business. A few things that strike me about companies that work really well as opposed … Continue reading Rankings of Customer Support