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Custom Triumph Bonneville T100 by Bunker. Over Grow The System » 11 Tiny Houses That Will Make You Want To Live A Simpler Life. Living for Monday — Better Humans. Yes.

Living for Monday — Better Humans

You’re right. I am so, so, so, SO crazy lucky to do what I do. I get to create, I get to help friends and clients make an impact. I have the unbelievable privilege of writing, designing, crafting with amazing collaborators and I have a beautiful studio and I absolutely love it. Frankly, I’m a really happy person. But there are a couple things here that should be understood: 1. 2. 3. I was Living, alone, writing late at night in my freshman dorm. I was Living, reading, learning, wondering. I was Living when I was working in customer service. You have to be Living when you’re on the grind. 33 Meticulous Cleaning Tricks For The OCD Person Inside You.

Why and How to Learn to Program. It's surprisingly rare for me to get emails with suggestions for posts, but since posting last week about my startup, I've gotten several requests for a post about programming.

Why and How to Learn to Program

Good idea-I should have thought of this before. Now is a particularly good time to talk about programming, because now is a particularly good time to start a tech business. Every two weeks I go to Startup Poker, where I play poker with a bunch of startup employees and owners. We don't talk about startups all that much, but when we do, a recurring theme is this: there has never been an easier time to start a startup. The process of starting up a tech company has almost become standardized: two founders join together with an idea, they start building it, take funding, and change the idea along the way as necessary.

The thing is, EVERYONE is looking for technical cofounders, and no one is looking for nontechnical cofounders. Learning programming is probably less difficult than you imagine it to be. TaskSmash codes: The Program. —Former Minister of Economy, Juan Andrés Fontaine [Versión en Español] Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government, executed by Corfo via InnovaChile, that seeks to attract early stage, high-potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups in Chile, using it as a platform to go global.

The Program

The end goal of the accelerator program is to convert Chile into the definitive innovation and entrepreneurial hub of Latin America; this is a mission shared by the Government of Chile and is a primary focus of the Ministry of Economy. In 2010, the program, at that point just a pilot, brought 22 startups from 14 countries to Chile, providing them with US$40,000 of equity-free seed capital, and a temporary 1-year visa to develop their projects for six months, along with access to the most potent social and capital networks in the country.

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50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life. Life Hacks @imageBlog. 18 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 9) #9.

18 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 9)

When the Ents Get Tired, They Just Sit Right Down ... MailOnlineErectile Dysfunction: It's not just for Bob Dole anymore. These trees can be found in the so-called Crooked Forest, in Poland, all of their trunks inexplicably bowing to the north. Adding to the weirdness, nobody knows how they got that way. Experts are certain that some human intervention had to be involved, but when World War II happened, the reasons for shaping the trees that way were lost.

. #8. Jump From Paper These bags by Jump from Paper look like giant stickers, but as you can see from the 360-degree animation on their site, these are real bags that you can store stuff in. Jump From PaperSadly, this model was beaten to death by an oversize mallet moments later. #7. Desi Colours OK, that doesn't even look sophisticated enough to be Photoshopped. That's a giant golden-crowned flying fox, one of the largest (not the largest? #6. Felipe Dana AP, via The AtlanticAbove: What Darren Aronofsky sees when he closes his eyes.