Max Beatty

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    Twenty-Four

    Today is my birth­day! I’m not really into my birth­day that much, but after see­ing what Matt Mul­len­weg, who I really respect and admire, has done over the years with his birth­day, I wanted to post something today.

    Making A Reputation

    Last week I announced I’m leav­ing Accen­ture. Today, I’m proud to announce that I’m mov­ing to the Sil­i­con Val­ley to join Reputation.com as a Front End Engi­neer. The last few weeks have flown by at a break­neck speed, just fast enough not to lose con­trol. It has been an absolute roller coaster of emo­tion with […]

    3 Strikes and You’re Out

    I’m leav­ing Accen­ture after less than 16 months. The promised fast-pacedconsulting life just wasn’t ful­fill­ing. Although the perks seemed end­less, the day to day grind of cor­po­rate and enter­prise bull­shit was suck­ing out my soul. Any­one who has talked to me in the past six months has heard my rants of dis­con­tent. I tried to […]

    Recruiting: The Other Side of the Table

    I had the oppor­tu­nity to rep­re­sent Accen­ture at the School of Infor­mat­ics and Com­put­ing Spring Career Fair last week. When I was a stu­dent, I went to three dif­fer­ent career fairs so it was inter­est­ing to be on the other side of it all. I jot­ted down some notes towards the end of it to […]

    Two Weeks on the Slow Carb Diet

    For the past two weeks Andy and I have been try­ing the slow carb diet pop­u­lar­ized by Tim Fer­riss from his book The 4-Hour Body. It has been really effec­tive while not being ter­ri­bly hard to fol­low. I was orig­i­nally going to wait until we had gone through the whole month to write about it, […]