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donpottinger.net 10y ago

Between Damian and Me: A Letter to My Biracial Son

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donpottinger.net 10y ago

Our Closet Door and the Compounding Effect of Procrastination

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donpottinger.net 10y ago

How Kevy Uses Elasticsearch for Real-Time Reporting

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

I attempted to use my own product, and it was unbearable

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

Take a Long Walk in Your Customer’s Shoes

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

Tears for Charleston

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

The Power of Storytelling

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

My Mom, the Homeless Man, the Prostitute, and the Jamaican with 8 Fingers

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

Do You Want Money or Do You Want Power?

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

AlterConf: How a Conference on Diversity Made Me Feel Uncomfortable

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

You Are Good Enough / Eres Lo Suficientemente Bueno

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

Passing as Black

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

Hidden in Plain Sight: Bending Perceptions and Framing Your Narrative

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

The Best Entrepreneur I Know

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donpottinger.net 11y ago

Lessons Learned from Failure: How I Didn't Become the CTO of a Promising Startup

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kickdrop.me 12y ago

Show HN: Beautifully crafted code snippets with Kickdrop

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kickdrop.me 12y ago

Show HN: Sell premium designs and code

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www.kickdrop.me 12y ago

Designers and developers share bite-sized resources under one modular framework

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blog.bodybossfitness.com 12y ago

Delivering a Rich Mobile Experience: Why We Went Native

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blog.bodybossfitness.com 13y ago

Is the 7-minute Workout The Real Deal?

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www.strukturedkaos.com 14y ago

Startup Riot SHOW 2012 – 5 Tips for Success at a Startup Pitch Competition

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www.strukturedkaos.com 14y ago

So you want to build a web application

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Co-founder of Langua here.

Congratulations on the launch! Very cool take on combining the structure of a personalized curriculum with voice chats.

Langua has both a chat mode and a voice mode for uninterrupted conversations to give learners flexibility. Our initial approach has been less structured which is ideal for intermediate / advanced learners. We have had a lot of demand from beginners for more structured and personalized learning paths, so we're rolling those out as well.

Best of luck with with ISSEN.

If you are looking for an alternative to Mailchimp that uses Amazon SES with dedicated IPs under the hood, check out Kevy [0]. Full disclosure, I'm the Founder of Kevy.

We verify the domains of each of our customers and thoroughly review their sending practices to ensure their email sending reputation stays high. Futhermore, you can talk to a real person if you have any issues with sending / deliverability. If you are interested in a comparison of Kevy and Mailchimp, check out this blog post [1].

[0] http://kevy.co/

[1] http://kevy.co/2017/03/31/kevy-comparison-mailchimp-klaviyo/

Excellent points - raising awareness by sharing these type of experiences is part of the reason why I've finally begun to blog. It's important not only for people of color working in or aspiring to work in the tech industry, but also for the demographic that doesn't understand what it's like to be a black unicorn in a tech world. It raises the empathy levels of everyone involved.

Thanks! This past weekend, I was able to tell Dennis how much he means to me, and I had to catch myself because I was beginning to choke up. It ended up being the inspiration behind this post.

Thanks for reading! I would love to go into more detail about what we talked about, but it varies so much from session to session. I could write an entire book on our conversations.

We, Body Boss (http://bodybossfitness.com) didn't even have a product last time year, and we thought just having a good idea was enough for acceptance. In the past year, we've boostrapped like crazy, built a product, launched and acquired plenty of customers to validate our idea.

YC rejection for the 2nd year in a row has done little to dampen our spirits and ambition. Here's to another rejection that motivates us to succeed!

- Proud Rejectee

Thanks for this presentation. I passed it along to our team's designer. Definitely provided clarity for us on how to go from design to development. For example, we weren't sure if it would be best to use images for the backgrounds of tableview cells and buttons or to use iOS coloring.

My name is Don. I'm looking for web development work using Ruby on Rails and JS/jQuery. I live in Atlanta, but I'm also interested in remote work.

I have a strong passion for developing web applications using Ruby on Rails, Javascript and jQuery and would love an opportunity to demonstrate my ability and to grow as a web developer. I've dabbled with Backbone and Ember and would relish the chance to learn more.

If you are interested to what I’ve been up to lately, please check out the following: - GitHub - http://github.com/strukturedkaos - Blog – http://strukturedkaos.com

You can contact me via email - donpottinger@gmail.com