This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
I am currently working on a project for a class titled “Senior Design” it is supposed to be the capstone of my learning experience as an engineer, designed to teach me how to take a project from idea to implementation. The class steps through a series of required documents (project proposal, functional specification, project plan, […]
I usually don’t talk about myself on this blog directly, but today I have some especially exciting personal news that I wanted to share. I’ve incorporated for my consulting business. All the papers have been filed with the State of Oregon and the IRS, and I should be a legal entity by sometime next week. […]
I’m going to start posting some quotes that I find inspiring. This first one is by Steve Jobs, from his speech given at the 2005 Stanford Commencement Ceremony.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. […]
Paul Graham, and entrepreneur and technologist who I have a lot of respect for, gave a talk at RailsConf 2006 this year titled “The Power of the Marginal.” The talk detailed the benefits of being on the “margins”, a place that is often looked down upon. It is from the margins, rather than the mainstream, […]