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I generally don’t use this blog for life news. I figure if you know me well enough to care about what’s going on in my life, you probably would already know anything I could mention. But, given that this particular tidbit has professional ramifications, I figured I’d throw out a short post.
At day […]

Brief note to let my dear readers know that we’ve set up a blog for RescueTime. Right not it’s not that active, but will eventually contain lots of interesting things that we can learn from our anonymous users. By asking them a few questions, we’ll be able to look at how productivity differs […]

Most of my personal hosting sites are hosted at a shared hosting company called Dreamhost. They’ve had some growing pains and certainly can’t handle any significant traffic, but they are a great host for dabbling (if I’m doing anything serious, like Jobby– now sold and gone– or RescueTime). They also have the benefit […]

(this is totally unrelated to anything I’ve blogged about before)
A friend sent me a link to an old article on SFGate.com about the environmental impacts of having children.
Two delightful excerpts:
“Hall and his colleagues found that a single new American born in the 1990s will be responsible, over his or her life, for 22 million pounds […]

I am a big proponent of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) at Jobster… I find the elusiveness of it exciting and the economies of scale interesting.
Anyhoo, I’ve always tried to “own” the search phrase “Tony Wright” in search engines. I have a big leg up (owning the tonywright.com domain), but I have some stiff […]

I’m a big fan of Guy Kawasaki’s blog.
Today he has an interview with Penelope Trunk, author of “Brazen Careerist”.
One of the things that really struck me was the following passage:
“Question: How much money does it take to be happy?
Answer: It takes about $40,000. It does not matter how many kids you have or what city […]

How many people can say they’ve been involved with 3 different businesses that have been featured on TechCrunch? First Jobby coverage (featured a second time when Jobster bought us), then Jobster coverage, and now RescueTime coverage!
RescueTime is the little side project I’ve been working on with my friends Robby and Joe. It was […]

Just read a GREAT interview with Seth Godin, who is about to launch a book entitled, “The Dip: a little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick)“.
For the record, I don’t think it’s time for Jobster to quit (or for me to quit Jobster). Recently, I’ve been asked to direct […]

In the midst of house hunting in the Seattle area, I somehow have managed to launch a little marketing site for RescueTime (my current side project). It shows a few screenshots, answers a few questions, and allows folks to sign up to hear about it when we launch (via a quick-n-dirty PHP script).
I’d love […]

About 8 months ago, a software idea hit me that I really wanted to work on. Like all ideas, it was based on a hypothesis. In this case, the hypothesis was “if understanding how you spent your time was braindead easy, you’d be a lot thoughtful about how you spent (and often wasted) […]