I’m giving 10% of my income to charity
I decided to start giving 10% of my income to charitable causes. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time without taking action. But tonight, I made the plunge.
I decided to start giving 10% of my income to charitable causes. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time without taking action. But tonight, I made the plunge.
I've wanted to join YC for the last 8 years. I've applied to and been rejected by YC three times.
On September 23rd, 2018 I sent an email to six friends. In it, I recapped the week including Scooter Map's user growth, the features I'd released, and my goals for the next week.
I read The Upstarts by Brad Stone which covers Uber and AirBnB's meteoric growth and Super Pumped by Mike Isaac which focuses on Uber and takes the story thru Travis' ouster.
I've been in the scooter game for the past year. Scooter Map helps riders and chargers find scooters fast. Spring helps new scooter companies get started.
I wrote a guide on the Scooter Map Blog.
Traveling light is awesome. Decide where you want to go and go. No packing or planning. True freedom.
Disclaimer: I am not a historian and this essay will offend involved groups. In such a complicated, divisive history disagreement is inevitable.
It’s a thing, check it out.
Brian Blum’s Totaled catalogues Better Place’s tumultuous journey from Davos draft business plan for an electric vehicle company to raising $100Ms as a sexy startup to spending that money quickly and irresponsibly to…
I made this w/ a roommate! And I’ve made a tutorial so you can make it too!
Read more here
This was originally posted on the CoBattery blog and on the Startup Grind Medium feed in early 2017. I’m posting it here now to preserve it for the future.
The play Operation Epsilon by Alan Brody covers a bizarro part of the end of World War II.
Ostensibly, The Most Human Human by Brian Christian describes the author’s quest to beat the bots competing for the Loebner Prize, the world’s most famous Touring Test. In the contest, judges talk with humans and bots via…
New shared lightweight electric vehicles will change the way we get around cities, but they will also have a lot of second order effects. In this post, I predict how the rise of micro-mobility will affect nearly everything…
I really don’t understand why so many people hold this essay in high regard. Maybe I’m missing something. In my reading, Seneca is writing to Polonious, a friend or relative, who is responsible for maintaining the food…
I was in Berlin for a week and there are a lot of options for getting around. The public transport system (U-bahn / S-bahn) is great, but to really see the city you should rent a bike!
I often find new ideas and see new perspectives when I am walking. In physics, there is a long tradition of walking as a key element of theory formulation. Einstein incorporated a walk into his daily routine. Bohr was known…
These are my super rough notes for Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. I wrote these notes for myself and cleaned them up a bit. So hopefully they make a little bit of sense!
These are notes I wrote up after reading The Everything Store by Brad Stone. I enjoyed reading the book and learned a lot of new things about Amazon’s journey and felt like I got insight into Bezos’ mind.
I have been riding the new electric scooters and bikes around San Francisco.
At the start of Life 3.0, Tegmark outlines the three different stages of life, in terms of physics…
The Three Body Problem is an incredibly gripping Chinese science fiction series. The trilogy starts during Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution, covers humanity discovering, losing to and overcoming an alien civilization, and…
I like meeting people and making new friends. But I have found myself struggling to stay in touch with old friends while also fostering new relationships. Being a computer nerd, I eventually ended up solving this problem…
Right now, I am working on marketing for CoBattery. In that vein, CoBattery is an iPhone battery case with a swappable battery. It comes with two batteries, so you never have to plug in your phone.
Facebook is distracting. My Facebook news feed gives me update after update of people I kind-of sort-of know. My ex-girlfriend went to a club with her friends last week. A kid I tangentially know from high school with just…
As I write this I am supposed to be just finishing up my last first-day-of-school at MIT. I should be a senior majoring in computer science and physics. Instead, I am taking the fall off from school and right now am in San…