Category: Entrepreneurship
Hacking Mindfulness with an Arduino and the iPhone
For the past six months, I’ve been working on measuring human physiology during meditation. Most notably, instead of focusing on measuring using an EEG (to record brainwaves), I’ve been focusing on measuring the changes in physiology caused by the autonomic…
Events Don’t Exist
In my life, I try to imagine events don’t exist at all. That there will never be some major “thing” that happens which changes anything dramatically in my life. See, I’ve noticed a lot of people go through life waiting…
Hacking Meditation with the Arduino
TLDR; Meditation done right changes your physiology. You can monitor these changes to your physiology using off the shelf components and the Arduino. Learning to meditate sucks, because there’s no way to know whether you’re doing it right. And if…
Good Partners Are Mutually Assured Execution Devices
I had a great weekend this week. I took a beautiful lady out to some of the world’s last remaining old growth cypress forest, went to an independent film festival, and skateboarded with some old friends. I completely forgot about…
I don’t have any idea what a wooden structure is, but I’m building a city.
My people tell me they’re building the houses out of wood, and I heard that wood is scalable. I can’t tell you what my city is going to look like, but I spoke with a lawyer. He said my vision…
From 0 to 10,000 Pageviews In Two Weeks
I took a break from writing for a while. Well, about 5 months to be exact. And my blog readers sputtered to a halt. But my experience interviewing with a company got me so angry, I had to start writing…
Big Hacks In Little Paradise – The Story of the First Naples Startup Battle
It’s 12:30 AM on a Sunday, and instead of being out with friends, I’ve locked myself indoors, busy building the most boring piece of software I’ve ever heard of. Of the team of four people I just met, I’m the…
The Human Transcendence Economy
We used to live in a world where propaganda worked. We all shared access to the same information, and that information came to us from above. Those who were at the top designed a worldview, and through advertising pushed an…
Building a Mobile Intelligent Journaling System in Python
Six months ago, I had a crisis. At my day job, the amount of data I had to keep track of and manage was exploding. I felt like I was constantly putting out technical fires. As lead web developer at…
Hacking My Health, Building My Startup
Six months ago, I got an idea. I was burdened by the growing complexity at my day job as lead web developer, and felt like there had to be a better way. I read a statistic that the amount of information doubles…