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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, 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.

I am the chief technical something or other at Reverb.com - The Marketplace for Musicians. We're hiring web designers!

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Photon Infotech – why spamming customers is a stupid way to earn their business

For several months now, I get phone calls two to four times a month from a company called Photon Infotech, an Indian outsourcing company. Regardless of the fact that numerous times I have told them not to call me, take me off their list, asked them if they understand the concept of the Do Not [...]


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 [...]


Leading from the bottom – Seth Godin’s Tribes

I just finished the new Seth Godin book, Tribes. The book talks about the idea that humans like to cluster around ideas, and they like to have someone to follow, and that a great leader is a facilitator, who helps connect the members of a community and fosters communication. When I was telling my friend [...]


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