Posts tagged with Startups
Face-Mapping for Custom Glasses
My wife is an optometrist. That means that my lenses prescriptions are always up-to-date, and we have a lot of vision-correcting hardware around the house[1]. While I've worn glasses since high school, they've usually been…
Home Security at Hardware Cost
A couple of years ago, there was a wave of break-ins in our neighborhood[1]. Appropriately freaked out, I went out and impulse-purchased a Canary home security camera, just before we went out of town for a week. At the…
The Employee-Founder Disconnect
Another month, another job posting ripe for internet ridicule. In this case, it's a job listing from the creator of Stardew Valley, looking for an administrative assistant to help him with a number of tasks while he continues…
Scaling with Your Team
I still remember the exchange. It was about 18 months into my tenure at Square—so about 5–6 years ago at time of this writing in 2018—and I've had the good fortune of working with a…
Uncanny Silicon Valley
I only started watching Silicon Valley after my wife binge-watched all existing 4 seasons of the show over a week. She told me she wanted to understand some of the jargon that me and my friends throw around during social…
The Cruel Startup Job Market
It starts innocently enough with a Ben Thompson tweet: Hiring is probably the single largest arbitrage opportunity available. Letting degrees/admissions committees make choices for you is dumb. https://t.co/Xis3JWGqH7 — Ben Thompson (@benthompson) July 21, 2017 I mostly…
