dayinthelife 378 photos · 236 followers “Please shower before entering the pool” Continue reading →

dayinthelife 377 photos · 236 followers “Starting the summer with a visit to the pool and angry birds @rovio @angrybirds” Continue reading →

Back in the summer of 2009, while in Chicago on the very first Invisible People national road trip, I started to get tweets from a homeless woman @padschicago. Somehow Ann Marie found me and was trying to connect over twitter. At the time, Ann was one of the first homeless people I found using twitter. I frantically started replying to her trying to connect, but I wasn’t getting a response. I remember it being very frustrating because ‘normal’ people would have responded. Heck, she was the one to contact me. Then I realized that unless she had access to a real computer she was not seeing my replies. As it turns it, that was exactly the reason Ann was not responding. As soon as she ... Continue reading →

This question suggests it wants to know the exact, tactical decisions. As much as I would like to share those tactics in great detail because it's fascinating and readers of this question would find it interesting/valuable, I'm legally bound to a certain amount of confidentiality so I'll only go as detailed as I'm legally able to. That basically means I won't share numbers and I won't comment on things that aren't directly discernable to the general public. Also, the list of optimizations is too long for anyone to remember. I also didn't work on the majority of those optimizations directly but tended to learn about them via close proximity to the people solving the problem they were assigned to solve. The team grew to 30 ... Continue reading →