Author: Jed Wheeler
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For God and Country
The sound of artillery was thunder, earthquakes, and every bad dream he had ever had as a child rolled into one. A sound more felt than heard, it made his bones ache as the vibrations poured through him. He had never particularly wanted to be a soldier, but when you are a young man with…
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Going Home
“A 20% down payment on a $600,000 house is $120,000. You’ll need that plus another $20,000 to cover closing costs at minimum to get started.” Back in India that amount of money would have bought a palace and even elsewhere in the US it would have bought a mansion, but here in the Bay Area…
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If you were a painting
A blank canvass is both exhilarating and terrifying for an artist. Just think about it – greatness and mediocrity weighed in the balance, an infinite number of images and ideas, all exist in that blank canvass as potential. Not fact, not even fiction, but potential. Making that first mark is the most dangerous thing a…
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New post up on Revzilla!
My first article for Revzilla’s new online magazine just went live! It’s 7 things I wish someone had told me as a new rider and marks my first time being published writing on something other than technology so I’m all smiles. I’ve mentioned Revzilla before as a great company that really understands Social and the…
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Ooonh
Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! The heavy repetitive sound of synth bass came thundering through the floor and try as he might Charles could not tune it out. Earplugs didn’t help, he could still feel the vibrations in the pit of his stomach churning…
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Slaying Dragons
Hi Robin, Please do not set up your purchase events so every individual purchase creates a new uniquely named event. That would break everything. Or at least lots of things. There’s at least a 5% chance it would cause the extinction of some unspeakably cute animal that has thus far eluded modern science. Stars might…
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Super
The line for the movie stretched around the block but Annette was giddy with excitement. She had been waiting for years for this film and was in full fangirl mode. Better yet, Matt had agreed to come with her, even though he wasn’t a fan of the comic. As the clock struck 11 with just…
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Peachy
The riots had been going on for days and, while Mo disliked the new government as much as the next guy, he was getting tired of living in a war zone. Every wave of protests brought a wave of repression and new deaths, spurring another wave of protests. The air was crisp and sharp –…
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Opportunity Cost
I’ve been looking to buy a house here in Oakland and the whole experience is a bit surreal. I’ll save you the blow by blow, but looking at home values, school rankings, and the OPD’s crime map; a few things jump out at me. Firstly, people talk a lot about crime in Oakland but looking…
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Learning to fly
Today is Ride to Work day so I wanted to share the story of how I started riding a motorcycle. I have always loved motorcycles and I’ve never felt really comfortable on 4 wheels. I rode a bicycle everywhere through my teens and most of my 20’s and didn’t really start driving a car until…
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Perfect
A bright green water bottle lay on its side on his otherwise immaculate desk, lid off. The laptop was almost certainly fried – he hadn’t been fast enough to stop the water from getting into it. Perfect. Absolutely f—ing perfect. The real danger of course with wet circuitry isn’t the water itself – it’s the…
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What to track in your Mobile App?
Brand new blog post up on the HasOffers corporate blog! Acquiring users costs money and keeping them is hard. Every app has some amount of churn but how much and under what circumstances depend entirely on you and the experience you’ve created. Since it’s impossible to measure uninstalls – on all three mobile platforms uninstalls…