Misc

One thing that annoys me on my Mac is the fact that apps from the Virtual Machines I use appear in Spotlight search. The issue appears when I have the same app on multiple operating systems: MacOS and Windows, let’s say. You search for Chrome, hit enter aaaaand… you start opening the Windows 7 virtual machine, instead of the MacOS Chrome app. I’ve found the solution today:

2. If you want keep Windows apps integrated but removed from Spotlight only. This changes from version to version of Parallels, but for version 7 do this. System Preferences –> Spotlight –> Privacy tab. Hit the + sign. Add the folder “Applications (Parallels).”

From here.

And yes, I’ve created this post just so I have the information at hand when, without a doubt, I forget how to do it again.

I just finished watching The Defiant Ones on Netflix. What a great documentary!

When I started watching it, I didn’t expect to be so drawn in. But it’s wonderfully filmed and the story of the business of gansgsta rap and Beats headphones is mesmerizing. I always knew of Dre as a rapper, but now I found out even more about what being a producer meant. Also, Jimmy Iovine. Going from producing for John Lennon in the 70s to building Beats and what would eventually become Apple Music, now that’s a story.

If you have the time, see it. You won’t regret it. Even if you’re not into gangsta rap or anything like that.

No, it’s not me. I rarely, if ever, drink alcohol. But I just found out the history of the word and it’s quite funny :))

It seems like the word shitfaced, as we know it (meaning drunk off your ass) appeared back in the day, in Scotland. Before they had any toilets, they used to throw their, um, chamber pot contents in the street. Only they wouldn’t do it anytime during the day, they would do it early in the morning, at a special time, when the church bells rang and everybody would open their windows, chamber pots in hand. They would yell “gaurdy loo!” and splash everything into the street. Only this time coincided with the time the bars closed and drunk people would stumble into the street on their way home. When they heard yell “gaurdy loo”, drunk and disoriented they would look up and… that’s how they’d get shitfaced 😁

Over the last 6 years, since Ireland is an integral part of my life, I learned to love drinking tea. Combined with milk, as it should be. Today, while drinking another tea pot filled to the top, I wondered: do I really like tea or am I just using this as a pretense to drink milk without the social pressure of ordering milk as a drink in a restaurant?

P.S.: if it feels like someone hacked my blog and keeps posting shit, don’t worry, it’s just me. I’m kinda thinking of stuff these days so I find things to keep myself entertained. Among them is using my blog as a Facebook page. This is why I also drew a tea pot and wrote something above it. Looking for my creative side, you know. Stay tuned, who knows what I’ll think about next!

I’m surprised how many early-stage entrepreneurs forget that raising money at this moment in their company’s life is all about trust.

You don’t have numbers to show, all you have is a story and potential. So how come most of the entrepreneurs don’t try anything to establish trust in the relationships they want to build?

Just a thought :)

I dislike Chrome more and more every day. The memory issues, the fact that when it comes back from sleep the extensions stop working…

What stopped me from using Safari more is, among other things, not having favicons on the tabs. When you are working with multiple tabs it’s a lot easier to use the browser if you have visual help in form of those favicons.

Here’s a solution for Safari. Not the best one, but not horrible:

Using Faviconographer to enable favicons on Safari tabs

Step 1: Download and install Faviconographer.

Step 2: Run the utility.

Step 3: Open System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Accessibility and enable Faviconographer.

Step 4: Configure the utility’s preferences to your liking (enabled favicons on tabs, bookmarks bar, or both).

solution from 9to5mac

Just thought you’d want to know :)

I talked about The CEO Library here. It’s a passion project I started about the books recommended by the people we look up to.

After 3 weeks, we have some numbers from the project. The reason I’m adding writing this post is to keep me and my team accountable and, frankly, I think it’s an interesting exercise and it could be a good resource for the future. In the last 2-3 years I was often sorry I didn’t write more about MavenHut’s evolution, so I’m doing this for The CEO Library.

Traffic: 4190 unique users
Email subscribers: 164 emails
Facebook likes: 405
Twitter followers: 120
Instagram followers: 70
Total shares through SUMO widget: 47
Interviews: 9
Collections: 3
Books added: 605

Genuinely, I didn’t expect 4000 users in the first 2 weeks. I announced the project on my newsletter, to about 250 people. I’m not a hypocrite, I expected someone to share something, but I expected spikes of about 150 people and about 10 per day after the first several days. I was wrong :)

Even more important, though, I didn’t expect the excitement around the project from people that found out about it: I got about 100 emails/messages/calls about how interesting the project is, how they found more books to read and how they understood more things from the interviews about the books they already read.

OK, what’s next?

Well, we’ve grown the team, actually. Starting in the first week of October, Vlad and Theo got involved, as well. They were building another project I was involved in that wasn’t going where we wanted, so we got together to build The CEO Library faster.

We need to add more books to the database. More and more interviews and collections rely on them and, even if it looks like it’s a lot, 600 books added already is not that much :)

We’re also adding more providers for the books. Besides Amazon US and Amazon UK, we’re adding Book Depository and, hopefully, Barnes and Noble (they rejected our affiliate account request).

This is for this month. If you want to know something specific in the future, let me know.