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Reflections on Crashing a Motorcycle

Last week, I crashed a Ducati Superbike. Surviving plus how I reacted to this unfortunate event taught me a lot about myself.

Jun 3, 2020

Black Ducati 1098S, Glasshouse mountains, Queensland, Australia

Jun 3, 2020

Rent a Motorcycle on Twisted Road

How you can rent this Harley Davidson LiveWire (or a Yamaha R1, or a Ducati Panigale) on Twisted Road. Get your first day’s rental free!

Jan 28, 2020

Harley Davidson LiveWire in front of love wall in los angeles

Jan 28, 2020

The Joy and Sorrow of Reaching One Hundred Thousand Monthly Page views

A year ago, reaching 100,000 monthly views was a distant dream. Now it’s reality, and being here feels very different to how we thought.

Dec 31, 2019

Reaching 100000 monthly pageviews

Dec 31, 2019

Launching a New Business — The Salon Startup

How Jo Hyun launched her new online business — The Salon Startup. This is part one, with more parts as the business develops.

Dec 18, 2019

Launching a new online business — a complete process for The Salon Startup

Dec 18, 2019

SEO Explained Simply in One (Short) Sentence

SEO really isn’t hard, and you don’t need expensive tools, consultants, or courses to learn it. This is SEO in one sentence.

Aug 7, 2019

SEO in one sentence, explained simply (facebook share image)

Aug 7, 2019

English Doesn’t Belong to White People

The sooner we accept that the English any of us speaks is valid English, the sooner we can accept that we’re all equally valid as people.

Jul 25, 2019

English Doesn’t Belong to White People

Jul 25, 2019

The Joy and Pain of Travelling While Non-white

Being called a lao wai in China, agaanib in Egypt and wazungu in East Africa, and how it feels to finally be the same, but only as one of…

Jun 27, 2019

The Joy and Pain of Travelling While Non-white

Jun 27, 2019

How to Hire for Operations in Tech Companies

Tech companies invest a lot in hiring for engineering. But operations, where the rubber hits the road, is just as hard. Here’s my guide.

May 2, 2019

How to Hire for Operations in Tech Companies

May 2, 2019

The One-Sentence Guide to Problem Solving

Don’t solve problems. Listen, and help people.

Apr 22, 2019

The One-Sentence Guide to Problem Solving

Apr 22, 2019

The “Garbage People”: The Faces Behind Cairo’s Giant Trash Problem

There are informal economies filling gaps between reality and public or commercial services in every society.

Apr 12, 2019

The “Garbage People”: The Faces Behind Cairo’s Giant Trash Problem

Apr 12, 2019

Why You’re Using Work Email Lists Wrong

And how to use email lists to build influence at work the easy way

Apr 10, 2019

Why You’re Using Work Email Lists Wrong

Apr 10, 2019

How to Hold Fun Meetings with Movie Poster Meeting Invites

How to go beyond being informative and be interesting and entertaining, and run meetings that people look forward to.

Mar 29, 2019

How to Hold Fun Meetings with Movie Poster Meeting Invites

Mar 29, 2019

How I Turned Down My Dream Silicon Valley Job for a Life of “Discomfort”

On September 27, 2018, I made the difficult decision to turn down my dream job. It was also one of the easiest decisions I had ever made.

Mar 7, 2019

How I Turned Down My Dream Silicon Valley Job for a Life of “Discomfort”

Mar 7, 2019

Create Free (yes really!) Landing Pages in 20 Minutes

How to host landing pages for free (yes, really free!) on Netlify using Cruip templates.

Feb 28, 2019

Create Free (yes really!) Landing Pages in 20 Minutes

Feb 28, 2019

Can you ever truly be “like a local”?

We yearn to be considered locals as we travel with Discover Discomfort, and we dread being seen as foreigners.

Feb 25, 2019

Can you ever truly be “like a local”?

Feb 25, 2019

Create Amazing Customer Service using Closed-Loop Data

How I used off-the-shelf tools to build an upward spiral of customer happiness.

Dec 18, 2018

Create Amazing Customer Service using Closed-Loop Data

Dec 18, 2018

The Surprisingly Complex Politics of Being and Speaking Chinese

“It’s disgusting.” I overheard someone at the next table say in Tim Ho Wan, a popular dim sum spot in Hong Kong. “It’s so different now.”

Dec 3, 2018

The Surprisingly Complex Politics of Being and Speaking Chinese

Dec 3, 2018

Is It Really “Too Late” for You to Learn a Language?

How to use your age to your advantage to get fluent faster.

Nov 22, 2018

Is It Really “Too Late” for You to Learn a Language?

Nov 22, 2018

How Software Talks to Other Software: APIs Explained for Humans

Software talks to other software to make your world work (just like humans do) using “APIs”. Here’s a simple explanation of what APIs are.

Sep 2, 2018

How Software Talks to Other Software: APIs Explained for Humans

Sep 2, 2018

Ditch Your Mac for a Chromebook, Save Money and Watch as Life Goes On: My Experience as a…

My full post is here on my personal site. But I’m summarizing it here to make it more available.

Aug 29, 2018

Ditch Your Mac for a Chromebook, Save Money and Watch as Life Goes On: My Experience as a…

Aug 29, 2018

Dana Hooshmand

Dana Hooshmand

I travel 100%, learning languages/culture, practicing combat sports, and riding motorcycles everywhere. hooshmand.net, discoverdiscomfort.com, motofomo.com.

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