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Do You Hate My New Blog Header?

I was getting a lot of abuse at work today over the new image header for this blog. Obviously, it’s just a quick Photoshop job over the Leopard background from Mac OS X 10.5.  But people seem to be...

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Psychohistory Reaches 450 Posts

Just a quick milestone for this blog.  It’s been a couple of months since I’ve posted any stats.  I don’t have the patience tonight to go into extreme detail, but here are some high level numbers for...

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LinkedIn: The Long Tail of Professional Expertise

I don’t normally “cross the streams” on this blog by referencing posts on the LinkedIn company blog, but since I’m off to Boston tonight to speak at MIT tomorrow, I figured my posting here might be a...

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Don’t Worry, The Blog Isn’t Dead…

… but my PowerMac G5 gave up the ghost recently.  I’m busy trying to get a new machine and get myself back up and running at home. It’s times like these that blogs need hold muzak… 🙂

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Slowly But Surely… Resurrecting My Home Machine

Definitely not at full strength, but slowly resurrecting my home workstation from the catastrophic failure of my PowerMac G5 last Friday. Tonight I got a brand new (OK, well, refurbished) 2.8Ghz 8-core...

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Adam Nash: Gentleman, Internet Tactician

Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for that title. 🙂 My friend & resident blogger at LinkedIn, Mario Sundar, found this follow-up post to a comment I left on one of the “live-blog” write-ups on my...

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How to Create Your Life Plan

Interesting timing on a post from Lifehacker today: LifeHacker: How to Create Your Life Plan The article points to a blog post by Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers.  The post from Michael...

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Blogging from the iPhone

Wow! This is my first post from the WordPress iPhone application. Not sure I’ll do this often, but how cool! Love the fact that they open sourced the code. Really cool.

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Mom Gadget on MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter

Had to share this small gem of a find.  It’s not one of my normal RSS feeds, but my wife forwarded me this article from Mom Gadget: Mom Gadget: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin – Double U – Tee – H...

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Battlestar Galactica Hits My Blog Stats… Again

Can you tell that Battlestar Galactica starts its final season in just ten days?  You can if you look at my blog stats… Over 200 hits to the post “The Fifth & Last Cylon” yesterday alone. I’m even...

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The Fifth Cylon as a Traffic Driver

I know I posted on this topic last week, but I thought I’d add an update after the big Battlestar Galactica debut this past Friday.  Interesting to see how frak parties everywhere translated into...

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Scot Wingo & Seeking Alpha: Traffic Drivers

It’s still fascinating to me how many insights I gain from the traffic to my own personal blog. Today, I checked my stats briefly and noticed something really strange: my post about eBay Express, A...

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Jordan: My First Twitter Baby

Those of you who follow me on Twitter (or who received an email), this blog post is about old news.  But I thought I’d share here, for posterity, the fact that last Wednesday, my wife & I were...

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Once again, the web is safe for “adamnash”

Just in case you aren’t one of the 225 million Facebook users who received a notification, tonight at 12:01 AM EST (9:01 PM local time), Facebook decided to launch a massive “first-come, first serve”...

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Timber Interview: Adam Nash

Of all the unexpected outcomes that have come out of my blogging experiment here on WordPress, one of the most surprising has been the amount of attention I received for a post on why I like investing...

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More Farmville Economics: Treeconomics

Wow.  The traffic from the first two blog posts on Farmville has been high.  In fact, the Zynga blog even picked up the two articles.  Very flattering. I was all set to write a post tonight on the...

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The Identity of Fake Leonard Speiser is Revealed!

Too much fun.  Tonight, we revealed the identity of Fake Leonard Speiser to, well, the real Leonard Speiser. The key to obfuscation was simple: there was no one Fake Leonard Speiser.  A group of people...

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I Need to Blog More & Tweet Less

I’ve come to a painful realization in the past few months:  I need to blog more and tweet less. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a huge fan of Twitter.  I’ve learned a lot from them from both a...

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Psychohistory: 2010 in Review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The...

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LinkedIn Hackday Video

LinkedIn decided to syndicate my previous post on LinkedIn Hackdays. LinkedIn Blog: 10 Ways to Make Hackdays Work As part of the post, they published this wonderful video montage about LinkedIn...

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How To Make A Great Tech T-Shirt

Late last year, I happened to write one of my most popular blog posts ever called: Why T-Shirts Matter Since then, this blog post has been viewed over 36,000 times.  It has been referenced from Hacker...

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Joining Greylock

Today, John Lilly put up a really nice note on the Greylock Partners blog officially welcoming me to the firm.  Needless to say, I’m both honored and excited to be joining such a great team. We’re...

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Psychohistory: 2011 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 460,000 times in 2011. If...

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The Combinatorics of Family Chaos

For those of you who read this blog regularly, you’ve likely noticed a lull in my posting.  That’s because, about two weeks ago, my wife & I welcomed a new addition to the family.  Given that the...

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Apple & Dow 15000: Update

In February 2012, I wrote a blog post that indicted the Dow Jones Industrial Average for including Cisco in 2009 instead of Apple.  At the time, Apple had just crossed $500 per share, and that simple...

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2012 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 310,000 times in...

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First Day at Wealthfront & Disclosures

Tomorrow is my first day at Wealthfront, and I couldn’t be more excited. As many long time readers know, personal finance has always been a passion of mine.  However, now that I’m moving from this...

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The Executive in Residence (EIR) Series

It’s hard to believe, but it is now exactly six months since I left my role as an Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners, and joined Weathfront as COO. Diving into a startup is all encompassing,...

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2017: New Year, New Template, More Posts

2017 is finally here. Over the past few years, there haven’t been many posts on my personal blog. Most of my writing time was dedicated to pieces for Wealthfront, although some of the drop off is...

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Joining Dropbox

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your...

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