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How to do anything 29 Mar 2013 | 01:38 am
Many people, when faced with doing something new that they know nothing about, won’t ever get started. The project seems too daunting and they don’t have any context for even where to begin. In fact, ...
Set good defaults 19 Jan 2013 | 06:07 am
Setting up good default behavior is very important. In fact, most people never change the default settings for the things they use. For software designers, this means investing time thinking about wha...
Exec Cleaning, or the challenges scaling a real world business 28 Dec 2012 | 03:16 am
We’ve just launched our new cleaning service for the rest of the Bay Area. It’s been several months of work to make our software robust enough that it can survive the real world. Some of the things I...
My entire entrepreneurship story in 10 minutes 1 Nov 2012 | 02:09 am
I had a fun time filming this interview (except for the part where our site went down momentarily, that wasn’t fun at all). This is probably the first quality edited recording of the entire story of m...
Divine Inspiration Fallacy 21 Sep 2012 | 11:49 pm
When you first start creating products it is easy to succumb to divine inspiration fallacy. For many first time entrepreneurs, it is easy to think that you uniquely have had a one-of-a-kind product id...
The First Time I Used Programming At Work 16 May 2012 | 05:14 am
It turns out you don’t have to be employed as a programmer to use programming at your job. When I was a college student, I spent a few summers working at a law office as a file clerk. Basically, the j...
The First Time I Used Programming At Work 16 May 2012 | 01:14 am
It turns out you don’t have to be employed as a programmer to use programming at your job. When I was a college student, I spent a few summers working at a law office as a file clerk. Basically, the j...
The New Bing 11 May 2012 | 09:48 am
A pretty cool detail: Bing special cases self searches (i.e. me searching for “Justin Kan”) and lets me customize how I appear. Self searching is a hugely common behavior on Google. Cool idea to piggy...
The New Bing 11 May 2012 | 05:48 am
A pretty cool detail: Bing special cases self searches (i.e. me searching for “Justin Kan”) and lets me customize how I appear. Self searching is a hugely common behavior on Google. Cool idea to piggy...
Socialcam #1 3 May 2012 | 05:53 am
Socialcam, our spin off company from Justin.tv, just hit #1 on the App Store Free charts. For those who don't know, Socialcam is the easiest way to customize and share your videos from your iPhone...
