In the game, there’s often a whole lot more talkers than doers. It’s hard to believe but it’s the absolute truth. It’s even so bad, than in the Bible itself, it is said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will […]
Ten Mutunhire believes we're on the cusp of a new technological revolution. He helps technology companies unleash impact and acquire customers and users through growth hacks, funnel optimization, technology advertising and artful copywriting. When not writing copy, he likes to code A.I. and work on new electronics gadgets. His favorite programming language is Elixir, from the brilliant programmer Jose Valim.
Get Pumped Up: 3 Songs For Champions
You know what they say, “Garbage in, garbage out.” And right now I’m worried many of you are listening to the hit-song du jour and not realizing the particular mindset could be turning your brain to mush. I plan to elaborate on that in a future post, but for now, I have something for you. […]
Why The Matrix Is Still My Favorite Science Fiction Movie
You can usually tell if a writer is a fan of The Matrix trilogy of movies. They’ll start talking about the Red Pill and the Blue Pill. Slip in references about The Oracle, machines, and ah yes, agents. As in, Agent Smith. And something about a giant big machine that houses a simulated reality. In […]
The Movement Is Nothing Without Work. You Need To Become A Grinder
Here at Towers of Zeyron I’m building a movement. It’s tremendous fun, this whole passion and lofty ideas thing. But hey, it would be a lie if that was all there was to it, to the whole process of starting a movement. There’s much more to it than that. For one thing, it takes work, […]
How To Make Your Art Count: Build A Movement
Movements are powerful things. They galvanize people and get them moving in a uniform direction with a shared purpose. Movements can be transformative. Or as we have seen with a lot of political movements, they can be destructive and downright deadly. So, why would you want to build a movement around your art? It’s how […]
My Latest Web App Is A Zombie!
Well, there’s no nice and easy way to say this, so I’ll just have to say it with as straight a face as I can: My latest web app is a Zombie. Not quite the walking and flesh-eating type, but definitely it reminds me of those hoardes of Undead. See, when I set out to […]
What Steve Jobs Knew About Failure That You Don’t
Writing the Towers of Zeyron rag magazine is as much about helping my readers with flashes of new insight as it is about creating a journal of insights that I will personally enjoy reading. I’m both writer and reader of these updates, and would not have it any other way. I’m writing a site for […]
Goo Goo Dolls Rockin The Stage At Red Rocks
Goo Goo Dolls is one of the most successful rock bands of the last century, looming large in the catalogs of rock and roll everywhere. So, I’m proud to present to you, the Goo Goo Dolls live at Red Rocks!
5 Science Fiction Heroes That Should Inspire You To Give Yourself A Kick In the Backside And Get Creating
If there’s one thing you should take away from the stories I publish on this site, this is it. Instead of wasting time and sitting around and complaining about how your art is not moving forward, or your business, or that your job is boring, and so forth, you need to get up and start […]
This Entrepreneur Used To Sleep In His Car. Four Years Later, This Is What He Is Doing
There’s no shortage of great stories to spur you on as an entrepreneur. Today I have a special one. For a really great story, you should check out MJ De Marco’s account of his entrepreneurial breakthrough. The story I want to shine a light on right now however, is the account of another entrepreneur, Daryl […]
Why You Should Choose React Over Angular 2 or 1 For That Matter
I remember coding with Angular 1 back in 2013 or thereabouts. Using Angular 1 directives was pretty remarkable at the time. Angular had bold promises about enhancing HTML with custom elements and a whole lot more. Then you had to deal with transclusion, dependency injection, factory services and a whole bunch of other mumbo-jumbo. It […]
Building NomadHideout, An Introductions App For Bloggers
Hey there. If you’re reading this you must be a blogger, or interested in blogging. I’m excited to give a sneak peek at an app I’m building for bloggers: NomadHideout. The idea behind NomadHideout is to facilitate introductions for bloggers. You know how hard it can be sometimes to get in front of a famous […]
Let’s Build A Todo App With BackboneJS And CoffeeScript
This tutorial will teach you how to put together a Todo app using CoffeeScript and BackboneJS. You can find the entire code for this tutorial on the Github repository. Here’s What We’ll Build The todo app is inspired by TodoMVC, except that we’re using Backbone.js alongside CoffeeScript as our stack, and we’ll style the app differently. It […]
The Ultimate List of 200 Greatest Web Apps On The Net: A Product Maker’s Guide
For web developers and designers out there, in an effort to be always improving our craft, it pays to see what others have accomplished. By looking at the brilliance and mistakes of others, we become better and can emulate what works, and discard what doesn’t work. I realize this list is highly subjective. It is […]
(Almost) Hands-Off Rails Deployments With Mina and Nginx on Ubuntu 14 LTS
Production deployment can quickly turn into a headache if you are not careful. In the ideal world, you’d simply click a button, and your code can go straight into production, delivering your latest releases to your users without skipping a beat. This is critical to get right because without a deployment step, your app that […]
The Real Sci-Fi Challenge: Because Our Best Ideas Are Feeble
Here’s a big, bold challenge. Let’s take the best scifi ideas out into the real world, combine them with code and see if that doesn’t yield plausible solutions for today’s boldest challenges. I’m calling this the Real Sci-Fi Challenge With good reason. As bloggers and scifi writers our words can remain in imaginary universes and leave the world […]
The Adventures of Hackerdom
The Adventures of Hackerdom, Routine 1 by The Infamous Hacker Tendai Mutunhire At last, we come to the weighty matter of the Metaphysics This men who are not novices have chanced to know Some politicians promise you Coffeescript before the election And then they switch and mudsling with JavaScript instead Tis little wonder the Fed’s […]