My stay in Santa Monica has been extended for SIX more weeks. I’ll be here until the end of August or so. Let’s do a game afternoon in Santa Monica. The Virtu offices are right next to the pier and there’s plenty of beverages and nearby fabulous restaurants. I have lots of games.
Led to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130507155714-5506908-what-if-you-learned-about-personal-branding-from-the-greats/ by Nicolas Bordas.
Linked to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130422125441-201849-your-most-important-career-decision/ by Aaron Hurst.
Arduino Hackathon at OpenX Pasadena Fri 26 April Join the OpenX team in Pasadena for our first Arduino Hackathon! Free food. Free Arduinos. Learn C. Learn to solder. Build something. Get prizes. Please join us for an all-day hackathon where we’ll teach you how to use the Arduino including an introduction to electronics and C. Then, we will teach you how to solder, which is vital to building your own electronics. You can solder your own blinky pin and take it home to impress your family. Then we break into teams of 2-6 to build something to use in the real world. You’ll have lots of Arduino shields and electronic components to work with to build whatever you can imagine. Prizes will be awarded! ...
I am coordinating and presenting an Arduino Hackathon in Pasadena on Fri 26 April. Free food. Free Arduinos. Learn C. Learn to solder. Build something. Get prizes. Please head over to http://lnkd.in/39aWMx to sign up so we can have a good head count for ordering food and Arduinos.
Endorsements are a good feature. I’m always behind on writing recommendations and this gives me an easy out for people that I haven’t written a recommendation for yet. If you don’t like this showing up on your profile you can hide that section. Hopefully linked-in will hear our concerns and improve this feature further. A lot of you seem to want to selectively delete individual endorsements. I hope they don’t waste their time on that. All I want is a button that says “never ask me to endorse person X again”. ...
Led to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130128162711-15077789-11-simple-concepts-to-become-a-better-leader/ which still sounds like very good advice when I’m re-reeading it in 2024.
Wow! Note: I now have no idea what this led to.
http://lnkd.in/DKreG3 is sound advice for anyone that really wants a job at one particular company. That led to http://news.dice.com/2013/02/06/red-hat/ which is no longer available.
(I’m not sure what this poined to now.) Arduino-Controlled RGB Lamp An awesome lamp that you can control from your laptop. There is a video of the lamp in action.