Jason's Business By Bootstraps

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  • High school had coaches. What do you have now?

    After too many years comparing my current abilities in the gym against my high school athletic glory days, I’ve finally figured out why I’m having such a hard time improving to even a fraction of the endurance levels I once had. It’s not because I’m older (there are lots of people older than I am […]

  • When doing what you love can hurt you

    As the photo might suggest, I’m trying to reconcile my differences with the Concept II rowing machine, after many many years of us not speaking to each other (I rowed competitively in high school.) You’ve got to love a machine that’s called an erg, short for ergometer, or Thing that Measures Work Done. It’s almost SEO […]

  • Secure passwords don’t matter much if your friends have common names

    So I was resetting my NY Times account password so I could read the article for my last post about hyperlocal websites, and they had one of those “tell us something unique about yourself so you can reset your password later” questions.  Here are the options: What am I supposed to do with this?  I […]

  • I get Disqus now

    Very briefly: in the near future, smart people will switch from “can you link to me” to “can you comment on my post?” – both weak invites, but my point is that the comment will be noticed by more of the early adopters who are active in social networks who actually track key influencers on […]

  • How can domain knowledge scale?

    If you develop multiple web sites and host them on the same boxes, you might be familiar with this pattern: So you start off with a site for a client, or maybe yourself, and you grab yourself a server or set of servers on a rack somewhere.  And then another client comes along or another […]

  • When will desktop mashups be as viable as web ones?

    This happens all the time, and another example came up this weekend when Ange was merging some photo collections: “I love how Bridge lets me search for photos by so many great criteria, but iPhoto’s events are killer and the scrolling is so much faster.” In the online world, the solution would be a mashup. […]

  • Walk Score highlights neighbourhoods with nearby amenities

    Via Joel – Walk Score will tell you how “walkable” a neighbourhood is. Of course, the first thing I did was compare my work address vs my home address, and it was a tie! Oh, and the record label that we used to share office space with is a bar, apparently. That said, I’m a […]