Author: Jed Wheeler

  • Jacob

    Jacob was having a great day. One of those days that you look back on for years and remember as a perfect moment of happiness. After months of thinking and planning about how to ask Katy to marry him he’d just blurted it out as he drove her to work.  To his great surprise, the…

  • 10 Rules for Startups

    10 Rules for Startups

    I was hiking with a good friend from a previous company this last weekend and we got to talking about some of the things we’d both learned over the last few years of working in tech startups.  I mentioned that I’ve put together a list of rules that for me determine whether I think a…

  • An Open Road

    I’ve always found the freedom of the open road to be both terrifying and liberating. It was the first thing he’d said in hours and it startled her out of her own thoughts. They had been driving for 2 days straight now and barely spoken a word, each of them intent on leaving their old…

  • Dishes

    When she came into the room he was staring into the mirror with a look on his face like a kid who’d dropped their ice cream into a mud puddle. Just look at me!  Yellow teeth, flabby gut, going bald in the back.  I’m a complete mess.  If I was a girl there’s no way…

  • Tacos!

    Tacos!!! She said the word like it was the ultimate answer and within it he could find any truth he might seek. Her eyes shone with laughter at the look on his face and he smiled back. He hadn’t been sure about being a father and still lost sleep most nights worrying about whether he…

  • Sunshine

    Grey clouds still obscured the sky but the day was finally getting warmer, and about time too!  After months of a spring that felt more like winter, John was ready for a little sunshine.  The weather forecast all week had been sunny but so far the clouds had managed to maintain their grip on the…

  • Stories

    I’ve done a lot of writing over the years but the form has shifted.  I wrote hundreds of songs and poems throughout my 20’s, then a bunch of technical writing and blogging on the tech industry for work starting in 2010, and now I find myself writing a lot of short stories for practice setting…

  • Career advice for my younger self

    Career advice for my younger self

    2008’s The Incredible Hulk is – by far – the weakest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it has a few good lines. One of them is when the antagonist declares to General Ross that if he could take the knowledge and skills he has as a forty year old and put that into…

  • Doing the Math on Online Dating

    Online dating can be frustrating with an endless string of people who just… aren’t quite right. So I sat down and did the math to find my 1 in 15 million.

  • We have walked this road before

    Some days it’s hard to get up for all the sad. But maybe pain can be a learning experience, yeah?

  • First Impressions

    I’ve been thinking a lot about Google Glass lately.  There are a lot of naysayers, as with any new tech, but I’m really hoping they’re able to pull off a successful launch.  Unfortunately, Google has a long track record of not giving their new releases the support and rapid iteration that’s required at the beginning of the…

  • Going Electric

    I love my motorcycles – the roar, the lean, the sense of freedom, and the way lanesplitting across the San Francisco Bay Bridge every morning forces me to focus on NOW instead of thinking about everything I have to get done during the  day.  Commuting on two wheels turns my morning into an adventure and…