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Dream Job for Purveyors of Office Supply Hotness

POSTED Thu Dec.08.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff, Encounters

A friend of mine forwarded me the online job posting for a new company/store called Material, saying it was right up my alley. And so I looked, and they caught my attention with the opening lines: Dream Job Available: Entrepreneurial Bad-Ass Who Believes Work/Life Balance is a Crock Everyone talks about Work/Life balance. But they’ve [...]

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Three Useful Magicks for Everyday Living

POSTED Mon Nov.07.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED ,

Today I managed to wake up at 6AM, get out of the house, and immediately launch into project work before checking my email. Such days always feel super-productive, because by the time 10AM rolls around you’ve gotten a good chunk of work out of the way. By noon I’d not only caught up with the [...]

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Podcamp Boston 6 Day 2

POSTED Sun Sep.25.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED ,

Still exhausted from Day 1, me and my friend Sean carpooled into Cambridge a bit later, just making the first 10AM session. I was hoping that my renewed optimism for business planning would continue, but rather than focus on exclusively on business-related topics I chose to pick sessions that were being given by people who [...]

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Podcamp Boston 6 Day 1

POSTED Sat Sep.24.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED ,

Another year, another Podcamp Boston! Although I hadn’t planned on attending this year, I’ve been on a mission to get out of the basement office and start socializing! I used to get intimidated by these kind of conferences, but over the years I’ve been able to put aside the anxiety of not being “cool” or [...]

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Piano Karaoke Blog Night!

POSTED Fri Mar.04.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED

SUMMARY: Some personal reflections on hanging out at a very relaxed “piano karaoke” event as a non-singer.

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Voltron: Defender of Your Data

POSTED Fri Sep.10.2010 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters, Things TAGGED

My buddy Alen, who has been the grandmaster of the venerable Japanese toy robot site ToyboxDX for nearly as long as I’ve known him, has been slowly building an army of original character toys. His latest: a licensed Voltron: Defender of the Universe, in a diminutive 2G USB Flash Drive package

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The Star Trek Online Experience

POSTED Tue Jun.08.2010 by Dave Seah UNDER Encounters TAGGED

This is NOT a review, but it IS a very long unabashed rundown of my two-week experience playing Star Trek Online, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game from Cryptic Entertainment. And yes, I did actually gain some useful insights from it.

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