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Notes from the workshop

Tech, business, making and the occasional life lesson.

Four days from no gear to lane splitting

I bought my first big bike with no gear, not even a helmet. Four days later I was lane splitting Friday morning traffic on the highway. Sensible? No. True story? Every word.

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The show must go on

Four minutes and fifty-nine seconds on the countdown clock, and my guitar was making no sound at all. Four true stories about things breaking on stage, and why they're the reason I stay calm when your system breaks.

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Give me a few days

A friend asked if I could remotely monitor battery voltages on a huge generator. My entire microcontroller experience was flashing someone else's code onto an Arduino Nano for a planned drumkit. So, classic Warren, I said "give me a few days."

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From worker to owner

How I went from a kid teaching himself Turbo Pascal out of a textbook to running a software company with enterprise clients.

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