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Professional life, work, corporate culture
Do What Scares You
Fall of 2007: I was on the phone in the parking lot of Yahoo!’s San Francisco incubator, Brickhouse. My job was fantastic. We had an incredible office, incredible location, great people, extremely flexible hours, the flexibility to work on what projects we wanted to, and the healthy pay that came with being a part of [...]
Life After Twitter
Photo by Troy Holden About a month ago, I was let go from Twitter. Everyone has their own view of what happened and why and I’d rather not add to the speculation. What I’ll talk about is my experience there, what I’ve been doing, and what I am working on.
Brooklyn Beta
A couple of weeks ago, I attended Brooklyn Beta, a new two-day intimate web conference put on by Cameron Koczon of Fictive Kin and Chris Shiflett of Analog. I had the honor of being invited to present on some of our thinking and process behind #NewTwitter, the redesign of twitter.com. Smaller, Smarter, More Intimate The conference had only 150 [...]
Time, Mental Readiness, and Productivity
Last September, Coley and I spent nine days at Redwood Forest Ranch. The ranch, located 45 mins off a dirt road between Fort Bragg and Willits, CA, was owned by an architect named Charles. The land includes three houses, all built by Charles with the help of his family. They are powered entirely by solar [...]
From Dino to Bird: Moving from Raptr to Twitter
Update: Contrary to reporting, I’m not “overseeing Twitter’s products”. I’ll be a product manager. One of many people contributing to Twitter’s future. A couple of weeks ago, I announced that I had left Raptr to explore other options. Raptr was an incredible experience for me and I learned a lot there. I watched and helped [...]
Raptr Launches in Public Beta
Raptr, the startup I joined at the beginning of the year, has gone into public beta. If you play any sort of video games – even casual Flash games like Who’s Got the Biggest Brain on Facebook (my current obsession) – I hope you try it out. I’m very fortunate and proud to have contributed [...]
I’m Writing a Book!
photo by chotda After two years of discussions with Lou Rosenfeld, I’ve finally signed with his publishing company, Rosenfeld Media, to write a book entitled See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas. For those that don’t know, Rosenfeld Media is like an O’Reilly for user experience books. They focus on compact, [...]
Open Hack Day, UK
Beck at Yahoo! Open Hack Day by Laughing Squid / Scott Beale Last October, Yahoo! held an Open Hack Day where we brought in developers and designers in the Bay Area to work on whatever they wanted to, and invited them to utilize Yahoo! APIs to make cool hacks … and that’s what people did. [...]
The Kind of Place I’d Work At
Back when I worked at Trilogy in Austin, it was during the first dot com boom. Trilogy did a lot of things typical to the era: free kitchens with snack bars and soda, open bar parties, keg parties on Friday afternoons and ridiculous company paid trips to Vegas and even the Bahamas. One thing they [...]
Who Wants a Job?
The Bay Area is hopping lately and people keep asking if I know anyone I can recommend. “Know any designers?” “Know any good Flash people?” “Know any good web developers?” I wish there was an easy way on LinkedIn to automatically link these people together. I equally get people from the other side looking for [...]
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Kevin is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, designer, and author. He is the co-founder of Incredible Labs and worked at Twitter, Raptr, Yahoo!, and Trilogy. He is @k on Twitter.
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