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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
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Author Archives: Chris Heisel
The link economy is dead: New York Times
Yesterday while I was looking for a link to the [Christian Science Monitor’s](http://csmonitor.com) plan to move to a primary online business, I found [this topic page on NYTimes.com](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/christian_science_monitor/index.html?inline=nyt-org). There’s. Not. One. Link. To. The. Monitor’s. Web. Site. Try it yourself … Continue reading
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Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service
Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service – A really interesting way to test demand — set up a CPC ad campaign for a product you have brainstormed but haven't built yet, see what the response rate … Continue reading
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Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb – An oldie, but a goodie. I strive to be lazy and dumb… I could probably work on the dumb part a bit more as I tend to overthink my coding a bit, … Continue reading
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Remember The Milk releases iPhone app.
Remember The Milk releases iPhone app. – You had me at "sync".
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Toast Driven – Abstract Model Metadata
Toast Driven – Abstract Model Metadata – Haven't thought about doing this at work yet, but now I will. We've got a lot of common metadata, and we've abstracted some of the mechanics into re-usable helper functions, but I like … Continue reading
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