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	Evolution Growing up, the reasons for "Why am I here" and "What is the purpose of life?" always felt so obvious. I was here to be an entrepreneur (or at least thats how I interpreted it). Becoming an entrepreneur made perfect sense given my relentless obsession with learning new things, creating value, building things, making things better and solving problems. Having accomplished this and grown up a bit, I realize that building products and businesses is simply a means to an end. In the grand scheme of things I believe: The purpose of life is to contribute to evolution While some embrace it more than others I believe its the reason we’re all here. If like me you wield an unhealthy dose of evolutionary drive, the task at hand seems daunting. We live in a world where nothing is good enough and everything can be improved endlessly. Luckily the tools, resources & processes are more accessible than ever before. We live in an amazing time. Now more than ever, there is nothing we can’t do. Technology has changed the evolutionary process forever. We are realizing that technological evolution is simply an extension of biological evolution. Technology is the evolution of evolution and its evolving exponentially. If things seem crazy at times, that’s because it is. We are going through a rapid transformation from biological to technological beings. We feel it happening all around us. Its changing the way we think and behave. Technology is becoming part of us, making us stronger, faster and smarter. Soon it will be embedded within us. As the drivers of technological evolution it is up to us to steer it in the right direction. To all the entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and tinkerers in this space; congratulations. You’re work is having a profound impact on mankind and future species to come. "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." - Charles Darwin 27 Feb 2013 Disqus Comments »

	Backup Your Brain When I built BrainBackup back in '06 my goal was to document my life so I could revisit later and see how I evolved. By making it a public forum I could share what I was doing and hopefully meet people with similar goals and interests. At that time a blog was the best tool for the job, but it's clear now that blogging couldn't possibly capture the massive amounts of data I generate. So what happened? Friction. Read More... 09 Sep 2012 Disqus Comments »

	Post Images To Tumblr Using PhoneGap And jsOAuth Took over a month but I’m finally posting images to tumblr from my PhoneGap app. What a nightmare! PhoneGap only outputs Base64 encoded images and the Tumblr API only accepts “URL-encoded binary contents" (whatever that means). After a month of trial and error and picking apart a ton of other people’s code I finally got it working. I’ve never worked with raw image data before so there was a ton to learn. Quite honestly, I still don’t understand all the conversions going on. One thing’s for sure, I’ve been manually diffing binary data for too long. You get use to it I guess. I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. Read more... 29 Aug 2012 Disqus Comments »

	Life's Too Short Awesome ad campaign for a job search site. 09 Jan 2011 Disqus Comments »

	Epiphanies The earlier you go to bed, the easier it is to wake up. Eating breakfast makes your brain work better all day. Drinking water makes you feel better. Which leads to my new favorite quote, "Water is the secret ingredient to life". If you can hold off on the caffeine until later in the day, its more effective. 21 Aug 2010 Disqus Comments »

	Google Projects The discovery of Punch, the mysterious new Google Docs format reminded me how badly we need Google Projects. Google Projects is my name for their Project management application which MUST be in the works. If not, then something is wrong. It seems like the natural evolution of things right? Create a bunch of really well built applications for running a business, then drop one super app on top to seamlessly integrate them all together. Here is how I propose Google Projects should work. Visit projects.google.com then: Add a new project Name the project Describe the project Set Goals for the project Set a due date for this project Share the project with other users Click “Create Project” Note: This is a new application, not a new file format. Google Projects should not be under “Create New” in gDocs. Once the project has been created, a bunch of things happen automagically for each user: A new task list is created for this project A new folder is created in Google Docs for this project A new calendar is created for this project Now that a project has been created, you can start adding tasks. Tasks are the center of project management. Google Tasks was originally intended to be a simple to-do list, so its going to need some kick ass new features: Super tasks Assign tasks to other project members Set tasks status (assigned, in progress, complete) Comment on tasks Nudge Think of Super tasks as a groups of tasks. You can kind of create these already within Google Tasks by tabbing them over, but I added this as a new feature because I think it needs to be reworked. Super tasks keep members working together on related tasks until the Super task is complete. Super tasks will have their own due dates and are automatically closed out once all the subtasks are complete. Commenting on tasks is my most requested feature from other project management tools. If I create a task, then assign it to you, you’re more than likely going to have questions about it. The other features of Tasks are pretty self explanatory. The “Nudge” feature is a nice way to tell someone to get off their ass and finish something. Think of it like a Facebook Poke. The center of Google Projects is the activity stream. Each action taken within the project is aggregated together on the Projects home page where they can be “Liked” and commented on by members of the project. Maybe the stream turns out to be Google Buzz (my second most requested feature of Google Apps for your domain)? Besides some permission/notification settings the last and probably most important feature of Google Projects is the icing on the cake: Search. Search within a project or through out all of your projects. This helps tackle an important question that pops up constantly “Why did we do it this way?”. Search your project, read through the comments and find out. So no UI yet, but I did stumble on a cool icon for it. The goal is to keep Google Project simple and fun. What do you think? Is Google working on this? Any must have features I left out? Do you need this? Would you use it? 27 Jul 2010 Disqus Comments »

	How To Add Your Foursquare Checkin History To Your Google Calendar Here's a cool Foursquare trick that I haven't seen anyone mention. Foursquare makes it super simple to add your check-in history to your calendar. Just go to foursquare.com/feeds/ (login) and copy the .ICS feed. Should look something like... http://feeds.foursquare.com/history/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.ics Now head over to your Google Calendar. Under "Other Calendars" click "Add->Add by URL". Paste in the feed you copied from the Foursquare website and click "Add Calendar". Thats it! Now you'll see your past checkins on your calendar. It would be cool if the checkins were set to Repeat Yearly so next year I could see where I was this year. Maybe someone knows how to hack the feed to do it? 17 Jul 2010 Disqus Comments »

	Subliminal Autosuggest Advertising What if software like Microsoft Word, Google Docs or even the iPhone OS autosuggested contextually relevant "sponsored words" while you were typing? For example, you're writing a blog post that mentions advertising and the next time you started to type a noun that started with the letter "A" the program "suggested" Adwords. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it's not alone, its part of a campaign. Do this a couple times, before exposing you to banner and text ads promoting Adwords and I bet click through rates go up dramatically. Why? Curiosity will kick in. You'll see an ad promoting Adwords and think, "I know I've heard of this before... What is Adwords?" and you'll click. Just wanted to throw this out there. Maybe its already happening? 14 Jul 2010 Disqus Comments »

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