Hello,

This is the personal website of Ben Sullivan.

Below you will find my blog, some past and present projects, and notes on startups.

Blog

• Apr 02, 2024 [life] Budget your motivational content consumption
• Mar 26, 2024 [work] Link Docs - a simple solution to tab overload
• Jan 14, 2015 [programming] When 1.day is not an Object
• Aug 24, 2014 [programming] Expressing the Liar Paradox in Ruby?

Translations

• “The Tomb of the Wild Chrysanthemum”, by Ito Sachio 『野菊の墓』伊藤左千夫

Notes

On Startups

• Startup FAQ
• Startup Knowledgebase
• Steve Jobs: 10 Rules for Life
• CS183B - Lecture 1: Dustin Moskovitz “Why to Start a Startup” Notes
• CS183B - Lectures 1+2: Sam Altman “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution” Notes
• CS183B - Lecture 3: Paul Graham “Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideas” Notes
• CS183B - Lecture 4: Adora Cheung “Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing” Notes
• CS183B - Lecture 5: Peter Thiel “Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory” Notes
• CS183B - Startup Checklist
• CS183B - (Transcript) Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup
• (Transcript) Paul Graham in Conversation with Nathan Blecharczyk
• (Transcript) Paul Graham on Focus and Growth (with Jason Calacanis)

Past Projects

• Don't Kill the Courier - A blog devoted to old typewritten documents
• Tadaku - an online service providing access to home cooking lessons in Japan (cofounded 2013, acquired 2015)
• Tokyo Startup Circle - 7 people meet over coffee every other Saturday to talk about startups (started in 2012)
• Bootstrap Snippets - Twitter Bootstrap markup snippets for Vim snipMate

Thank you,

Ben