Peter Nixey

A few days ago I received an email from Rob Bishop , the CEO and founder of Magic Pony . The email said that as a shareholder of Magic Pony Ltd. I would shortly be expected to sign a series of do...

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There’s a a really interesting discussion unfolding right now between Paul Graham and Tim O’Reilly on the Wealth Gap and whether or not economic inequality is really a bad thing per se.   ...

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Most people don’t enjoy pain. If I held your hand over burning candle you’d haul at me to pull it away again. You wouldn’t even need to see or know that it was a candle to react to it. If I...

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Everyone knows the importance of hiring well. Everyone knows that the people they hire will set the culture and the prospects of the company. Anyone who has ever worked in a company has seen that...

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I am a founder advisor to a company called RotaGeek . RotaGeek schedules staff for companies like O2 i.e. it makes sure the right people are in the right retail outlets at the right time of day. ...

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Which while completely orthogonal to anything else I write about is kind of cool :)

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Jessica Livingstone recently wrote a very good article for the WSJ on Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales not Marketing. Her point was that early companies do much better by making their product...

https://peternixey.com/post/88182825903

As with my previous post this is taken from an email I sent round to our team today I’ve spoken about this with all of you individually now but I’d like to get it down and into Copyin too...

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This is taken from an email that I sent out to our team earlier today. Some jobs in life come to you - answering phones, answering emails, responding to requests. They turn up and you process t...

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I love this early interview with Mark Zuckerberg. I remember seeing it when it came out in 2005 and being impressed, even then, with how humble and pragmatic the vision for the service was. The...

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DISCLAIMER: This is a very long piece, much longer than I would normally write on any subject. I have edited it back but on sending it to friends to read they agreed that there was no one bit tha...

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We’ve been beating about the bush here for years, Amazon but let’s be honest, it’s time for you to have a key. At first it was lunchtime dates at mine. We’d both be excited and both be th...

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There are bad things happening with regard to our personal privacy right now. Many people don’t see anything wrong with them and many people feel no discomfort about them. Twenty years ago, th...

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After my last post on photo management it became obvious that I was far from alone in my concerns about iOS photo management. The article hit a nerve and thousands of people retweeted it and eve...

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During today’s keynote, Tim Cook mentioned, almost in passing, that you could log into the iTunes store using the fingerprint sensor. This statement may turn out to have way more significance...

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These are the slides from the talk Taavet Hinkrikus and I gave yesterday at the O2 for Campus week and Wayra. The talk is about how to build good quality product quickly in highly uncertain sit...

https://peternixey.com/post/60271073987

I recently switched from using DelayedJob to Sidekiq for processing my background tasks. Sidekiq’s super-powerful for jobs that have a lot of latency (like external API calls) since it parallel...

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Last week Carl Icahn sent out a tweet that raised the market cap of Apple by $17Bn. Carl was under no illusions as to the significance of his disclosure, and filed with the SEC before doing so t...

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“The Valley’s brightest minds once invented things of immense significance like the first PC. But then came the internet and the pursuit of big ideas was eclipsed by a scramble for quick prof...

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When we first started building Copyin we had a problem. We found it incredibly useful but our early users felt differently. We loved that it created a knowledgebase out of our email. The problem...

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