@joshbuddy I did it.
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Brad’s Musings
A Smörgåsbord of gray gooey stuff from my brain
3 Dec
2009
Phoenix - 1901
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Another great song. It turns out this acoustic version is better than what they recorded on their album.
1 Dec
2009
"Stop building lame business applications"
As I was cleaning my wallpaper folder on my Mac, I came across one I made about three years ago.
I remember making this wallpaper right before I started Y Combinator at my old job in Chicago because I was sick and tired of how dysfunctional the project my old boss had me working on. To make a long story short, I was tasked with building a workflow "collaboration" tool that in reality, helped our clients hide the real status of their projects from each other. Tangentially, I remember being lectured by my manager on how, "the only way to manage is to micro-manage."
Its really liberating to know now that when I wake up in the morning, I get to work on my application; something that I care about so much that I will shed blood, sweat, and tears to build. I don't micro-mange and my team performs amazingly. We don't even live and work in the same city and we accomplish some pretty significant milestones.
If you're thinking about making the jump from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur, make this your desktop background. Life is too short to work on something you don't enjoy.
30 Nov
2009
What chain restaurant should I eat at?
Dustin Curtis passed this my way. This is some really funny stuff.
30 Nov
2009
A Meteor
Jeff just brought to my attention from my time-lapse video a meteor that streaked through that sky. Above is that frame at full resolution.
30 Nov
2009
Moonset over San Francisco Bay
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I just started playing around with time-lapse photography. Here's my first clip of a moonset over the San Francisco Bay. You can see the ferries zipping through the bay if you watch the video in fullscreen HD.
Now I need to buy some more equipment so I can make a lot more of these.
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Hi, I'm Brad. I run a company in Berkeley that builds web applications that people pay for, like Poll Everywhere. Find out more about me at my website or follow me on Twitter.
