Dan

You are now part of the long tail. Decentralization enables the expansion of ideas and products into new markets in ways that were never thought possible before with centralized systems. This unlocks an equal if not greater portion of the value that is available for those ideas and products. Lets...

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  • July 3, 2017

I hate your poem – that spittle you call verse The pustular oozing of emotional soothing broken, gnarled and terse I hate your poem – and it’s childish rhyme scheme Your dutiful pattern so beaten and battered Like an unspeakable crime scene I hate your poem – in all its...

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  • July 3, 2017

Since I’ve had a website, I’ve been redoing it. Over and over, playing styles and themes and metaphors. Never content, I went through iteration after iteration. Each iteration walking through varied works in progress – moving items here, blatantly stealing paradigms there.  Part of this was just the passion of...

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  • June 10, 2017

Imagine the future when almost every cause, company, and even people have their own currency. Think of it the same way most companies and many individuals today have their own domain names, Twitter accounts, and Facebook pages. Billions upon billions of expressions by people creating and sharing what they love...

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  • June 9, 2017

The scene wasn’t pretty. Me, in my boxers, unwashed, undressed, and sweating against a humid DC summer. I had just congealed in front of the computer for an amount of time well past inordinate. Shuffling pixels around enough to trick my poor monkey mind into thinking I was accomplishing something...

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  • March 8, 2017

A plotter, a planner, a doubting calculator. Keys stuck – pressed too hard in Ohio. Attics hold secrets and humidity. Futons creak with photos taken a year ago. Its now more act than action. more stage than show. “What do you want?” is the echoing poison, the black crystal I...

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  • September 1, 2016

I can’t help but look back on my article highlighting how it feels to look for a job these days and consider what things look like from the other side of the interview table.  Broken Metaphors The biggest flaw in the dating metaphor is that the candidate is not dealing...

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  • February 21, 2016
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I have been meaning to post this as a spiritual sequel to my job hunt article. Landing a job in the modern day is only the initial problem. Quickly jumping onto the moving train that is a young, vibrant startup is a whole separate ordeal. Orientation is ever-maturing, documentation is...

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  • February 13, 2015
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So, I’ve been meaning to write this post for a very long time. I have been searching for a job for roughly a year. I thought about doing the post in parts and pieces as I interviewed with companies like Facebook, Dropbox, and Palantir, but I never had a solid...

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  • September 22, 2014
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So, I recently rebuilt my main desktop, and I had some fun on the cutting edge of technology with a Z97 motherboard and an M.2 SSD. I’ve detailed my experience below for those that perhaps google Z97 and XP941. Preparation 1. In troubleshooting, I eventually updated to the latest 0902...

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  • June 10, 2014