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Agreed. As a few individuals have really make some big impacts I have been sure to thank them personally for working hard and helping us hit our date. I intend to thank the team pu…

I am a product manager in a startup and we are about to release our MVP. Our team has worked hard and I want to recognize some individuals that worked hard to get it out on schedul…

At ( http://myheatmap.com ) we were sweating whether we were violating Google Maps API terms. So we decided to implement Mapbox and haven't looked back.

I use mine to research all the conferences & trade shows for the upcoming year that I might want to go to. They find out the price to sponsor as well as the price to attend. They e…

I do use the 1.5x feature but save that for the podcasts I actually listen to. By reading the transcripts I can "monitor" 3-5 weekly, hour long podcasts in 15 minutes. As for the c…

The best advantage I have found with our VA is having them listen to all the podcasts I want to listen to, summarize the articles and send me the transcript. Then I can skim in 30 …

I am curious to find out what corporation's quarterly analyst calls people call into. I had a professor in grad school that loved listening in on certain companies to stay in front…

No, but looking for something accessible to anyone.

I recently stumbled on Mike Allen's Playbook to get non-BS inside political news. And I have also really enjoyed listening to The Briefing on Monocle's app every morning. I am curi…

One trick they used which I know well is booking one leg of the flight to a ghost or hidden city. For example my outbound flight was CLT>PHL>LGA. Not always the case but there are …

I used them for a trip this past weekend just to get from CLT-PHL, a route I thought I knew every trick to flying. They saved me between $75-$100 for that simple flight.

The Lean Startup is good but I found Running Lean to be much more tactical. Plus the guy who wrote it, Ash seems to be very active in providing content beyond the book in his newsl…

I just started reading Code and think as a fellow non-technical person this is a great lace to start.

Get a 2nd job. For two years while I had a 100% telecommute job I worked as a white water raft guide and a ski instructor. They started as just on the weekend but before long I was…

How many users/customers we talk to each week. The higher that number gets, the more momentum we feel and the less we feel like we are lost in the woods.

Healthy food in an airport.

From your experience are there any new types of tasks you see on the horizon other than just the standard photo tagging, text recognition, etc?

Bills - Make sure every bill you have is sent to you paperless. Some banks and other firms have to send you paper statements until you ask for it to be paperless. Mail - Checkout E…

Not quite pure coding but I have certainly started dabbling with automator on my Mac. My favorite one so far is the special folder I setup on my desktop that automatically prints a…

A non-technical trick I learned was to try to send emails 10am local time of the recipient, Tuesday thru Thursday. I found this was the time I was most likely to get a response bec…

Batch delivery, except for urgent messages. I like to get my email like my snail mail, all at once.

Interactive map showing the locations of those using #ThankYouSteveJobsFor http://www.myheatmap.com/maps/iN5Nuwh2H3g=

http://www.myheatmap.com/ Charlotte, NC (but the internship could be done virtually) Unpaid 3-6 month internship We need research to find data sets that show off the capability of …

Here is a heat map of the location of @ mentions for @jonathanscard, which for the most part is the location of those that have added funds to the card. http://www.myheatmap.com/ma…

Side project while I finish up my MBA but hope to build enough momentum by the time I am done to jump full time into it.