It’s basic human psychology that upon meeting someone new, we immediately try to throw him/her into a category in our heads (we do it to ourselves as well). It can make us uncomfortable when we can’t chuck a person into a nice little box and say, “this is what you are….” This page exists to give you an idea of the things I love & live for and hopefully escape being filied away as A or B….
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[su_tab title=”Biz”]Some of the startup and business blogs I read on a rather religious basis.
- Product Hunt
- AVC
- Signal vs Noise
- Springwise
- 500 Startups Blog
- Both Sides of the Table
- Inc.com Blog
- Harvard Business Review
- DealBook
- TechCrunch
- VentureBeat
- Uncrunched
- Bits Blog
- GigaOM
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[su_tab title=”Books”]What I have read that has helped shape my thinking.
- Daring Greatly
- Steal Like an Artist
- Manage Your Day-to-Day
- Founders at Work
- The Lean Startup
- Outliers
- The Four Steps to Epiphany
- Man’s Search For Meaning
- Against The Odds
- Switch
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Blink
- Delivering Happiness
- ReWork
- Enchantment
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development
- Startup Nation
- Crucial Conversations
- Making Ideas Happen
- Made to Stick
- Yes!
- Predictably Irrational
- The Paradox of Choice
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The Tipping Point
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- Anil Dash
- Maria Popova
- Eric Ries
- Paul Graham
- Mark Cuban
- Brad Feld
- Noah Kagan
- Caterina Fake
- Jason Fried
- Gina Trapani
- Chris Anderson
- Chris Sacca
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Thanks to the Pulse, Flipboard, & Zite apps I’m able to digest these amazing sites below.
- Design You Trust
- Wooster Collective
- NOTCOT
- Inspired Magazine
- Behance Magazine
- Uncrate
- Design Milk
- FFFFOUND
- Fubiz
- The Dieline
- Lovely Package
- Core 77
- Cool Hunting
- But Does it Float
- The Fox is Black
- Grain Edit
- Dezeen
- Design*Sponge
- I Love Typography
- Coudal
- AisleOne
- Yanko Design
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- 500px
- 1px
- devianart
- Daniel Kennedy
- Jason Bell
- East Photographic
- Jeffrey Salter
- Jill Greenberg
- Brent Stirton
- Rankin
- Mitchell Kanashkevich
- Ciril Jazbec
- Kalle Gustafsson
- Thomas Kettner
- Alex Prager
- Edward Loh
- Adam Von Mack
- Koen Demuynck
- Andrew Hobbs
- PhotoDonuts
- David LaChapelle
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Definitely not possible without Readability and Pocket.
- Circa
- NYTimes
- New Yorker
- VICE
- The Atlantic
- The Economist
- Lifehacker
- The Big Picture
- The Onion
- Wired Mag
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[su_tab title=”Efficiency”]Anyone who knows me, has recognized that I am obsessed with efficiency. So, I get asked a lot about the tools I use to get through the day. Here is the most recent list as of 01/07/2015.
- Automation: IFTTT (personal) + Zapier (business) + Google Alerts + GigaAlert
- Tasks / Todo Management : Workflowy
- Notes: Evernote (visual) + GinkoApp (written)
- Mind Mapping: MindNode Pro
- Contact Management: Contactually (pulls in my Linkedin, FullContact, Google Contacts)
- Meetings: Refresh + Charlie
- Newsletters: ExpressPigeon
- Reading Sources: Circa (breaking) + Pulse (design/art/arch) + Flipboard (tech) + Zite (discovery)
- Reading Management: Pocket
- Photos: SKRWT + Instagram
- Browser: Only Chrome…
- Screenshots & Screencasts: Jing
- Publishing: WP (permanently dumped Tumblr)
- Quick Sites: SquareSpace
- Security: LastPass + Keeply + several that are none of your business….
- Email: Gmail + Rapportive +Boomerang + Unrollme
- File Sync/Sharing: Google Drive + Dropbox + Infinit
- So I Don’t Go Blind: Flux
- Time Management: Pomodoro Technique via Breaktime
- Writing: GinkoApp -> Scrivener -> Hemingway App -> Readability Test
- Social Media Management: Buffer + IFTTT + Tweetdeck
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No way to fit all of them, so these are just a handful of my favorites.
Beer:
- 5 Rabbits
- Revolution
- Three Floyds
- Bells
- Founders
- St Bernardus
- Left Hand
- Russian River
- New Belgium
- Brooklyn Brewery
Gin:
Coffee:
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