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Standing Desk

By Ben Rasmusen ⋅ November 12, 2010 ⋅ One comment

I’ve been toying around with the idea and implementation of a standing desk for some time. Inspired by my friend Ben Lew and having read a couple articles (like this one) about the benefits of standing and working I’ve been wanting to give it a shot. I was however pretty nervous about going cold turkey [...]

21times Hacker News Sneak Peek

By Ben Rasmusen ⋅ November 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

November 1st we launched an early version of our new project 21times.org. Some members of the Hacker News community committed to launching an application by the end of November as an effort to fight off procrastination and get their projects out into the world. Since we were already working on 21times.org we decided we could [...]

My Departure From Twitter

By Ben Rasmusen ⋅ May 22, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

On May 22nd, 2007 at 5:35pm I posted my first Tweet. After fighting it for awhile and finally being convinced by my friend Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) I decided to start using Twitter as a way to network. And thus began my experiment. Now exactly 2 years and 4,757 updates later I have decided it’s time [...]

Ryan on the baggage of failure

By Ben Rasmusen ⋅ March 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Life is driven by entropy, and is always tending towards a state of disorder, but you can put energy into your life and fight that trend. We’ve all failed and had setbacks. Don’t let that baggage drag you down into a vortex of failure. Just pick yourself up, take a deep breath, and try again. [...]

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