If you’ve never heard of OpenTable, I’m guessing you don’t live anywhere near a city. It’s the real-time online reservation system that lets you book a table without having to call the restaurant. I dine out a lot and I tend to be the planner in my group of friends, so OpenTable and I know [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pleasure'
OpenTable has a brain. Does your product?
December 1st, 2010 · 5 Comments · Pleasure, User Experience
Awesome Email of the Day: I write to you, thanks to Google Translator
November 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · E-mails, Pleasure
Passion knows no bounds. Thanks never gets lost in translation. From: Bruno Chaves To: Whitney Hess Subject: hello from brazil Date: August 4, 2010 9:04:13 AM EDT I do not know write in English. my English is very bad. But you can read;) I write to you, thanks to google translator:) I met his blog, [...]
Tags:Emails·Inspiration·Pleasure
Awesome Email of the Day: Increasingly dissatisfied by how little influence I feel I have
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · E-mails, Pleasure
I am a very fortunate person. I feel it every day. Some days I get the most incredible emails that make me realize it even more deeply. A few months ago I got this one, and I was given the permission to reprint it. This is why I do what I do. I know so [...]
Tags:Emails·Inspiration·Pleasure·Props
Thanks is never enough
November 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Career, Digressions, Pleasure
Thank you to Mr. Dan Kramarsky who in the eighth grade suggested that I elect to take the Computer Science class in ninth grade. Thank you to Mr. Charles Rice who let me take his one Computer Science class for all four years of high school, and encouraged me to consider applying to Carnegie Mellon [...]
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A Book Apart: Empowering Fuzzy Teams in 100 Pages or Less
November 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Pleasure
On Sunday, I reread Jeremy Keith‘s HTML5 for Web Designers, from cover to cover, on the plane to An Event Apart San Diego. I first read it when it arrived on my doorstep in July, but I am in a different mindset now — beginning a new product adventure — and I wanted to refresh [...]
