I got a new iPhone after 2 years. I hate buying new phones because ideally, I want to use my phone as little as possible, so why would I need a good one? The older and worse the better. To aid that, I've done a bunch of non-standard things over the years to make my phone harder to use, and therefore...
from a former SWE turned technical AE I started coding at 13 because I liked computers and video games. 5 years later I got a job at Shopify. After working there and at some startups for 3 years, I realized I was probably not destined for a career of staring at a screen for 12 hours a day. Luckily, ...
The world has changed so much in the five years since I was 18. As a thought experiment, here’s what I would do if I lost all existing resources (network, money, skills, back in my hometown) and had to start over. Going to College I probably wouldn't go to college. I dropped out after two years, and...
I wrote a blog post about an interesting SEO rabbithole I went down recently. I posted it on Twitter, and after a few days it got 400 views. > "Damn, my writing must suck. Oh well, pretty standard. I guess the audience doesn't like my content." I posted it on Hacker News too because it takes an extr...
Value yourself more, make more money Negotiation is my passion. I grew up watching my dad try to haggle everything from our monthly internet bill to peanuts at the flea market. I am my father's son, yet I took my talents to the Bay Area instead. Over my two years here, I've added more than half a mi...
An SEO adventure So I don't talk about work very often, online or in real life. All you need to know is that I make companies way more money than they pay me and that my work is important and mysterious. Anyway, at work today, I was doing some SEO research i.e. how to get more people to come to our ...