Coffee Cups of New York City
Gear Patrol presents a visual survey of New York's disposable coffee cups: The receptacle was not born in New York City, nor is it unique to NYC’s busy streets…
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Get Closer to Your Customers
Great collection of tools and insights for startups to better understand their customers: “It’s impossible to operate a business without interacting with…
How 4Hero Programmed Goldie's Software
Sven Von Thülen interviews Goldie: “I had a lot of ideas and samples in my head and Marc and Dego would listen to what I said. We went into these intense…
Trader Joe's Says NO to Social Media
Alicia Eler on why Trader Joe's chooses not to maintain a presence on social media: If Trader Joe’s were to join social media and chat with consumers, would…
Onboarding: Show, Don't Just Tell
Some great advice on key elements to your onboarding flow: Offering users a structured set of steps to walk through helps reduce abandonment. Psychologically…
Prototype First
Nice post-mortem from Hipmunk explaining why Protyping is such a valuable tool: If you don't prototype your application before you start building, you're doing…
Technical Debt
Technical Debt. Whys, hows and whens. I prefer to be in control of a situation over acting in a reactive fashion. This leads me to make decisions in another…
Breaking Down User Stories
The objective that every sprint deliver valuable, working software, is not a requirement. It is a design principle of the Scrum process. Agile is not about…
Eldora Trail 10k
This weekend I did my second trail race of the summer, the La Sportiva Eldora Trail 10k. The course was at the Eldora Mountain Resort along the Nordic Center…
First Trail Run of Summer 2009
This morning I completed my first trail race of the summer, the Evergreen Mountain Trail Race (I had planned on one earlier but decided to take more time to…