The blog ofJonathan Pepin

Notes from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values [raw]

2018-11-23

Raw Kindle notes for Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (http://a.co/2VOpxAw) You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate. I argued that physical discomfort is important only when...

Nginx logs with GoAccess on a Digital Ocean Droplet with Ubuntu 16

2018-10-27

I've recently gotten a Digital Ocean Droplet (aka virtual machine, just like AWS EC2) to mess around with doing all the magic stuff that usual hosting providers such as Heroku do for you. Automatic deploys, web servers, etc. Right now...

Know your tools

2018-10-23

Something I appreciate doing here and there is building smaller scale projects, focused on going back to basics on technologies I use. I had a few months of frenzy at work where everything we worked on was so comlicated (not...

Notes from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less [raw]

2018-10-09

Raw Kindle notes for Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less by Greg McKeown (http://a.co/apLZfEB) the basic value proposition of Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you...

Notes from It Doesn'T Have To Be Crazy At Work [raw]

2018-10-06

Raw Kindle notes for It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson (http://a.co/cmIuAaw) Your company is a product. A company is like software. It has to be usable, it has to be useful. And it...

Notes from Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During The Golden Age Of Steve Jobs [raw]

2018-10-04

Raw Kindle notes for Creative Selection: Inside Apple'S Design Process During The Golden Age Of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda (http://a.co/hr5Dj0x) This book is about my fifteen years at Apple, my efforts to make great software while I was there, and...

Move fast and break things?...

2018-09-11

...or move slow and be safe? There are two main schools of thoughts. First, "move fast and break things". I'm using an adage that means something else, but at the same time I feel like this represents well this...

An engineering guide to client calls

2018-08-24

I started a creative and engineering studio with my fiancee, so I had a fair amount calls with potential clients recently. Some went well. Some went wrong. Some felt like they went wrong, but went well. Most of the calls...

Notes from The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing [raw]

2018-07-07

SUCCESSFUL INVESTING IS ALL about common sense. As Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, has said, it is simple, but it is not easy. the winning strategy for investing in stocks is to own all of the nation’s publicly held...

Don't do growth hacking

2018-07-06

Too many early stage startups ask me about "the secrets of growth hacking". They want to know what hacks they can put in place to gain customers and grow. Looking for the one trick that will finally unlock their hockey...