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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.

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Just good enough

I recently finished Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers , a really interesting look at some of the most well known success stories including Bill Gates, the Beatles, and Jewish lawyers, among others. The book covers a range of topics but one of the central premises is that what we perceive is talent is more like an affinity [...]


Identity photo project: casting call

I’m starting a photo project this month that will investigate the concept of identity by looking at your hobbies. I want to take two shots of each person. The first will illustrate you in the personality of your favorite hobby. Whether it involves a particular costume, set, environment, props, we will capture this identity. The [...]


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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