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Building a Meditation Controlled Orb 16 Mar 2013 | 12:27 am
For the past six months, I’ve been working on measuring human physiology during meditation. Most notably, instead of focusing on measuring using an EEG (to record brainwaves), I’ve been focusing on me...
Events Don’t Exist 25 Feb 2013 | 10:50 pm
In my life, I try to imagine events don’t exist at all. That there will never be some major “thing” that happens which changes anything dramatically in my life. See, I’ve noticed a lot of people go th...
Using Processing to Generate Christmas Presents 25 Dec 2012 | 01:52 am
Download the code at Github. As a last minute idea, I decided to write some code to generate my Christmas gifts. If you look above, you can see what the final result was with all the code. I’ve printe...
Hacking the Human Mind 17 Dec 2012 | 11:49 pm
“The intelligent want self-control, children want candy.” - Rumi Last week I gave a talk about the progress I’ve made on my meditation platform. In it, I went into a little more depth about the whys b...
Hacking Meditation with the Arduino and Clojure 8 Nov 2012 | 08:13 pm
TLDR; Meditation done right changes your physiology. You can monitor these changes to your physiology using off the shelf components and the Arduino. Learning to meditate sucks, because there’s no way...
Good Partners Are Mutually Assured Execution Devices 6 Nov 2012 | 01:47 am
I had a great weekend this week. I took a beautiful lady out to some of the world’s last remaining old growth cypress forest, went to an independent film festival, and skateboarded with some old frien...
I don’t have any idea what a wooden structure is, but I’m building a city. 29 Oct 2012 | 10:10 pm
My people tell me they’re building the houses out of wood, and I heard that wood is scalable. I can’t tell you what my city is going to look like, but I spoke with a lawyer. He said my vision … Contin...
From 0 to 10,000 Pageviews In Two Weeks 24 Oct 2012 | 10:20 pm
I took a break from writing for a while. Well, about 5 months to be exact. And my blog readers sputtered to a halt. But my experience interviewing with a company got me so angry, I had to start writin...
Big Hacks In Little Paradise – The Story of the First Naples Startup Battle 23 Oct 2012 | 10:12 pm
It’s 12:30 AM on a Sunday, and instead of being out with friends, I’ve locked myself indoors, busy building the most boring piece of software I’ve ever heard of. Of the team of four people I just met,...
An Iterative Approach to Building an API – Part 4: Fabric Scripts for Code Deployment 15 Oct 2012 | 10:09 pm
Over the past three days, we’ve stubbed an API in YAML on Tornado, then upgraded to an ElasticSearch backend, and finally, built and deployed a server to Amazon Web Services using Chef scripts. Today,...