January 2012
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November 2011
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Spells of Rails magic – quick recipes for getting...
When we first start learning new languages, we try to remember phrases to work with, such as “Qu’est-ce que c’est?” (French), and then break them into pieces while trying to understand why they work like they do. Same goes with learning Ruby & Rails: to get started, we need some basics we can start tweaking bit-by-bit. Here’s a set of those recipes.
Before...
October 2011
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Whose advice should I listen to? – Building...
Caption: This reminds me of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom pyramid.. Source
If what I’ve heard is true, there was a time when Steve Blank and Eric Ries were just guys who had their opinions about startups like the rest of us. Since then, they have become the leading authorities in startup marketing. Will they stay like that forever or will new people become authorities after them...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Why all startups should come to Silicon Valley as...
For most early-stage Finnish startups, coming to the Silicon Valley is not about getting funded. Getting realistic feedback to understand your strengths and weaknesses is far more important.
Learning jumps to a whole another level when you spend time actually working in the Bay Area. A well-spent month in the Valley pretty much equals one year of working in Finland. If I could do things again,...
January 2011
3 posts
Dissecting flow and productivity – Case Bookstrapp...
Flow is described as “mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity”, and said to require 1) clear goals, 2) skills matching the challenge and 3) clear and immediate feedback. Last weekend, at least about 100 people experienced that state at the Aalto Venture...
Dr Piotr Wozniak versus Tim Ferriss on Polyphasic... →
Does polyphasic sleep actually work? If it doesn’t, why would Tim Ferriss advertise it and claim he has benefited from it?
After all, he explicitly says:
”I have used both the ‘Everyman’ and ‘Siesta’, detailed in this chapter, with great success. I reserve anything resembling ‘Uberman’ for emergency deadlines only.”
Tim Ferriss wrote a...
Ever thought about how much Oodi sucks? Now you...
My first contact with the infamous Oodi was in 2006 when I started in the CS dept. of the University of Helsinki. (Web)Oodi is an information system designed originally in 1995 to administer the huge register of students in public universities in Finland, and later also a development Consortium (Oodi-konsortio). It started with at least the universities of Helsinki and Oulu.
Depending on the...
August 2010
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Fall feeling
This weekend has been quite a watershed between the summer and fall. Some of my friends are moving to other cities to start their studies, the Summer of Startups program is about to end and today I started to really organize for the fall, signing up for courses at Helsinki School of Economics (starting my 3rd year there) and reserving my calendar with important events along the weeks of September...
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