Someone who thinks outside the box. Someone who discards conventional wisdom and does something else instead. Someone who looks at the edge and wonders what's beyond. Someone who sees a set of rules and wonders what happens if you don't follow them. - Bruce Schneier
Lean Startup 101 for Developers
Kanban is the new Scrum
Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah...
Are We Agile Yet?
Is Deploying to Production 50x/Day a GOOD Idea?
Be a Rockstar
Just Do It: A Quick Intro to Agile's Technical Practices
Agile Leadership: Methodology Ain't Enough
WordPress Design: Idea to Photoshop to HTML
Plane Crashes, Software Failures, and other Human Errors
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My Latest Obsession & 19 Other Random Things About Me
It’s up! It’s up!
My PushPage interview is now live – and so I join the ranks of Gary Vaynerchuck, Zooey Deschanel & Ashton Kutcher.
Just in case you wanted to learn the quirkiest thing I own (a 4 foot tall rice goddess), my weirdest dream, or my latest obsession – check it out!
PushPage: A Q&A Session With Your Favorite People
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Does Your Personality Help You Get Shit Done?
Continuing with the awesomeness from 99U Conference…
They say there are two types of people in this world… those who divide the world into types of people, and those who don’t.
Gretchen Rubin falls into the first group and she’s been giving a lot of thought lately to how we think about rules.
As such, she’s divided the world neatly into 4 types based on how we feel about rules: Upholders, Questioners, Rebels, and Obligers.
Self-awareness being a good thing, I thought I’d share and think about how these types effect our ability to get shit done.
“Escaping success is how I stay in a state of wonder”
– Joshua Davis
I just got back from the 99U Conference, which was filled with amazing speakers, but my absolute favorites were the ones who stood out as the scrappiest of the lot. The ones who stood on stage and you wondered briefly if they’d ever presented before as they stood up there so raw and authentic.
At the end of the second day, after hearing from a number of well-known authors and founders, this big, biker looking dude walks out on stage in jeans and a t-shirt, tattoos down his arms, on his neck – starts screaming "HEY!" … "HEY!#@$!" and then laughing with this total little kid’s smile and screaming some more.
And then proceeds to tell us that he’s going to talk to us today about… Escaping Success.
Is your startup going to be a business… or a hobby? How can you tell?!
Below is a video of the presentation I did at Harvard Innovation Lab last month – I initially called it Creating Your Minimum Viable Product, but it’s really about: how can I validate that I’m creating a viable business (as opposed to a very expensive, time consuming hobby) before going off and building it?
I include a bunch of case studies of what other startups have done – successful or otherwise – and provide some tools to help you along the way. Hope you enjoy!
