Small features

By rickColosimo / November 5, 2015 / Comments Off on Small features

Building a big Internet company is hard, and I guess not everything can be earth-shattering. Sometimes, developments underwhelm: who at twitter thought that “hearts and likes” vs. “stars and favorites” was worth engineering time? I have been similarly stymied by the changes in UI for changing apps in iOS versions. In iOS 4, a double-click…

Bravery is for you

By rickColosimo / November 2, 2015 / Comments Off on Bravery is for you

“Bravery is for other people,” Seth Godin writes. He talks about how that just ain’t true. We’re supposed to make the choices that don’t require our kids, or someone else’s, to grow up to be Audie Murphy or Rosa Parks. We’re supposed to make a series of small, non-dramatic, slightly better for the world choices…

Do the math.

By rickColosimo / June 12, 2015 / Comments Off on Do the math.

Some interesting math to note in this article comparing the cost of saving vs. borrowing for college. Gotta love math. Save for your kids, or they’ll be even more broke than you might fear you’ll be. (Of course, there’s no annex here for adding on the costs of lifetime support for a child with autism.)…

Places to grow up

By rickColosimo / May 5, 2015 /

Okay, so I haven’t read through the methodology yet, but the data from this visualization and article in the NYT sure do look interesting. Basically, I should either stay in Bergen County or move to Westchester. Here are the meaty questions: