Tim O'Hearn

Hedgehogging Review

Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: September 9th, 2018 Reading Time: Two weeks, light reading I was in a library for the first time in my adult life and saw this on a shelf among many books I’ve

I estimate that I’ve written north of 800 reviews. Books, vacation spots, restaurants–I just like writing. I like forcing myself to think critically about the things I purchase and experience. I’ve also been involved with businesses and products that have

I’ve been reading with great avidity for several years. I try to read a book each week. After finishing one, I decide on a star rating and publish a review on Goodreads. Sometimes I’ll use that review box as a

Two of the earliest posts that I wrote on this blog were Understanding the Resumé Screener and Beating the Resumé Screener. The point of these articles was to provide counter-arguments to much of the ridiculousness that one can find atop

Letting Someone Handle the Business Side

It was early in my undergraduate studies when I was first approached by someone with a startup idea. I didn’t know the would-be founders particularly well, but I quickly realized that they had no technical skills whatsoever. They were going

I haven’t seriously played Runescape in almost ten years, but one of the first posts I ever made to this blog, An Optimal Runescape Staking Build, remains the most popular article here. It was haphazardly assembled and I never had

I became involved with a SaaS startup last August. Stripe was the natural choice of payment processor. It’s been a learning experience. Rather than mindlessly recount the myriad benefits of using Stripe, I want to provide some of my personal

It was January 2015 and I stood atop the Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. It was sixty degrees outside and I had just finished a picturesque climb with my cousin. I wasn’t sure how he had procured the road bicycle

The Unsung Importance of On-Campus Recruiting

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Lehigh Class of 2022 sendoff event in the Chicago suburbs. Two of my fraternity brothers who were interning in the city were able to join me, so we were

Nautomation: Pumping the Brakes on Automation

This post has nothing to do with the sea I’m really into automation. I’m of the opinion that the media spends so much time highlighting hypothetical Artificial Intelligence scenarios instead of the concept of automation because the sci-fi scenes that