Below is a timeline of my first year in San Francisco. You can also view the timeline on Dipity. Hint: You may want to start at the bottom and work your way up. Aug 5, 2011 1 year in Startup Valley Its been a great first year. Gearing up for year 2 in the city. […]
This post is more for me than for the typical reader of this blog. So, if you’re not a developer, you might want to skip this post. Wanted to jot down some quick lessons learned, in case I ever encounter these problems again. Yesterday, in the rails project for imaiku, we migrated from sqlite to […]
When I first met my mentee, 3 years ago, the first thing that she said to me was, “I’m so happy that you’re black!” This was an hilarious moment for the both of us. She later explained that when her social worker mentioned that mentors were volunteers, she associated volunteering with white people. And that […]
Update since my quitting post: I have not completely ended my service at my company, but now I work part-time and only go into the office two days a week. So now, you would think I now have plenty of free time to work on my projects. However, since becoming available, a multitude of opportunities […]
Unfortunately I’m not able to attend my baby cousin’s college graduation today. But I plan on using imaiku to keep connected with streaming pictures. I’ve asked my family members with iphones to download instagram to take pictures today and use a unique hashtag to upload to twitter. (Right now, imaiku can only support instagram, but […]
Okay, so it wasn’t nearly dramatic. But this week, I gave notice to my company after 10 years of service. It just became obviously apparent this week, that I was learning more outside of work, than while at work. And my only reasons for staying and dealing with a daily 5 hour commute roundtrip was for […]
Last week, I wrote about building a minimum viable product (mvp) in 3 weeks with my urban posse team. Over the weekend at Startup Weekend, I experienced mvp in 1 day. Whew! Yes, a lot of work, little sleep, more work, and no sleep. I primarily went to Startup Weekend to code in Ruby, meet […]
Check out our blog post on the release of our MVP on 5/1 on TDDivas.
A few weeks ago, I took a Railsbridge class to learn Rails. I was placed in a small group with others with CS backgrounds looking to learn a new language. The group was pretty amazing. All of us were aggressive and hardcore about learning a new skill. So aggressive, that we sort of conned our […]
So, I’m at the point where I could probably use a little more time management. Between working full time, co-running an organization, and building a startup, it seems I seldom have time for anything else. Within the last week, a few people have asked me about dating, when do i, who, and the Bay area […]
Hadiyah Mujhid 