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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from March 2010

Yellow cab fail

Yellow cab: here’s how a policy of training your employees to be replaceable cogs with no ability to think for themselves has cost you my business.
I’m standing outside in the rain, sick, coming from the doctor. I dial yellow cab. Can I please get a taxi at 14th and Castro? Sorry sir, I need [...]


Make the easy stuff free

The other day I thought I had lost my Kirkwood ski resort season pass. So I sent an email to the season pass office wondering what it would cost to replace it. Their reply: $50. Now, that’s kind of ridiculous. It takes about 5 minutes of employee time and probably only a couple bucks in [...]


pritzkerphoto.com relaunched – portrait photography in San Francisco

Yesterday I relaunched Pritzker Photo, as a home for my portrait photography in San Francisco. I’m starting to take requests for portrait sessions on weekends and some weeknights. If you need a new headshot for your facebook page, dating site profile, to promote your business or creative work, talk to me! 100% satisfaction or your [...]


Why I left bluehost: shared hosting doesn’t work

This blog is now proudly hosted on slicehost.com! It seems somewhere in the last couple days, bluehost touched something on my shared hosting account that caused php-mysql to break, and this blog was displaying a message about this breakage.
This was the last straw for me. I previously wrote about how bluehost would not admit [...]