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API Innovation at Best Buy
In 2017, I was interviewed by Get Put Post and spoke about API Innovation. There isn’t much thought provoking material in it, largely because there’s only so much you can say while wearing the hat of a publicly traded company, but it was still a great opportunity to launch the next chapter of the company’s…
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The Blessings and Curses of Offering a Free Public API
In 2016, I gave a presentation at API World. The topic was “The Blessings and Curses of Offering a Free Public API“. This was before Twitter made accessing their API a challenge, and Reddit also raised their API fees. Although the topic was appropriate for its time, the audience for this messaging was miniscule. It…
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Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder
tl;dr; Stop trying to hack the Amazon Dash button. Just buy a cheap doorbell, a Raspberry Pi, and solder them together. You’ll get more flexibility and keep some heavy metals out of our landfills. Now the actual story
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Six things we should agree about email.
We get it. You like email. Now stop abusing it so the rest of us can get back to work. There is no shortage of advice about email. Some of them are pretty extreme. Some want to destroy it altogether. But I prefer to accept a reality where incremental improvements have a higher probability of success. So I bring to…
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Startup Presentation at Minnedemo 2013
In 2013, I was fortunate to present my startup – TrackIf – to an audience of 700 people at the fantastic Minnedemo event. It was the 2nd time that I was able to present, the previous being in 2006 for Fetchster (now LinkUp) – that was before anyone had the idea to start recording the…
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Jobseeking: As Tough as it Sounds?
In 2010, I had the chance to try a presentation at Ignite Minneapolis. I’m not particularly proud of this presentation, although I think the content itself stands the test of time. An Ignite Presentation puts you at the mercy of your PowerPoint. You have 5 minutes (after which your mic is turned off), and the…