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A talk I gave at TEDxValenciaSt1 in 2011 on the importance of imagining the ideal freed from the constraints of knowing how you're going to build something!...

My interview with Karina Pikhart and Peter Cantisani about Karina's startup 6dot, which is making a new portable Braille labelling system....

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David Weekly interviews James Halliday and Peteris Krumins, the CEO and CTO respectively of the newly-established Browserling, a browser testing firm in which David made his first angel investment.

David interviews environmental policy wonk Tim Telleen-Lawton about his work for Environment California....

Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Aleksandra Markova describe the Atherton, CA based incubator-house they live in called Blackbox.vc, how it sprung out of a global network of youth entrepreneurs called Sandbox, and how a young, rural German came to meet a young,…

My interview with Jeff Lindsay, my co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse and the Hacker Dojo....

My interview with Jeff Lindsay1, with whom I co-founded SuperHappyDevHouse2 and the Hacker Dojo3....

Rhett Butler of Mongabay1 talks about his upcoming State Department sponsored trip to Indonesia, where he'll address thousands on the subject of biodiversity and property rights.

Interview with Paolo Privitera of DooChoo, talking about innovation and startups in Venice and creating ties and cultural exchange with Silicon Valley....

My now former roommate Ulrich describes his epic road trip from California down to the southern tip of Chile in his trusty Jeep, with a kayak mounted to his roof.

Alan explains how he got introduced to computers, why he went to Stanford and majored in philosophy, and how he ended up as a software engineer working for a Silicon Valley company....

Alan outlines the three rules of software testing:...

Jocelyn describes her childhood in Wyoming and coming to Silicon Valley as well as her personal interests....

David Weekly interviews Treehouse housemate Nato Saichek about his hobbyist space vehicle project to build a pico-satellite measuring 4&8243; cubed that will use solar sails to sail to the moon....

I grew up nearsighted pretty badly in my left eye 20/200, or -3.0 &8211; my right eye too, but to a much lesser degree 20/35 or -1.0.

A talk I gave for Lean Startup Circle at UCSF in 2009....

Curious about the TM and R symbols by brand names?

Because stories are told from a first-person perspective, they concern themselves with the subjective truth of the observer. different observers of the same factual events are recorded as different stories with different truths. many conflicting stories c…

you must remember...

I've been losing weight for a month and have managed to shed around 12 pounds; I've still got a ways to go, but I've been happy enough with the results and have received enough good advice about the topic that I thought it would be worthwhile to share.

The experience itself has a small value, providing tidbits to recall later context for other experiences....

I've been following with keen interest the development of solid state drives1 SSDs, which are basically really fast and reliable flash memory to use instead of the current rotating magnetic drives.

My coworker Joël1 and I were today discussing the different ways we can communicate and how "serious" each was.

This is my first review of an MRE from the Sopakco Sure-Pak 121.

David's Awesome Tunes You May Not Have Heard for Brett...

Also known as: David's Guide to Getting Drunk in Style....

A talk I gave at the Peninsula Linux Users' Group1 about the history of PBworks....

TERRIBLE UI @ Hotel Gotico: Elevator Originally uploaded by dweekly...

Perill de Caigudes?

This weekend I banged out a very simple location service called L0K8.

Who am I?...

When I was stuck in Boston's Logan International Airport for a few hours waiting for a flight, I decided I ought to get some work done; I popped open my laptop to see if I could spot a free network.

written during an april 2008 trip to boston...

With only about 50% of PBwiki's traffic coming from North America and with preliminary benchmarks showing 3+ second page load times in Paris, I've been thinking a bit about how to make the PBwiki experience snappy for people around the world.

A post of mine from a recent email thread on why a co-op should continue to host a server with arguably distasteful but legal content:...

In honor of pi day1 3/14&8230;...

The singularity is past.

Who am I?...

On September 22nd, 2007, I got together with several of my friends Eve Phillips, Jocelyn Joy Berl, Travis Kalanick, Nathan Schmidt, and Alan Keefer and with the inspiration of my brother Chris Weekly1 we tasted a number of beers and rated them, along with…

Help.

In this talk for STIRR1 FounderHacks, I emphasize that founders should have their product do the simplest thing possible and let their users guide but not design!

> Landmark is a popular and profitable program in the US that claims to teach people how to better master themselves and their perceptions of the world.

Every person and every animal has built in a desire to survive and to better themselves.

> Much of the "blogosphere" seems to be an echo chamber, with its own terminology including the word "blogosphere", cult leaders, conferences, and memes.

I am rather appalled by the continuing aftermath of the publication of a few single-frame cartoon images of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper nearly half a year ago.

About half a year ago, I decided to go sign up for a Vonage account.

a very rambling and awfully incoherent saturday writing, done without the benefit of breakfast, or even lunch....

I had a weird experience today chatting with a hacker on ICQ who had taken over my friend's account.