Dylan Schiemann

So far, I’ve yet to have nearly enough time in each city, but I’ve made the most of it while still keeping up with work. On Wednesday morning, I spent a short amount of time networking and more time repacking my luggage more efficiently.
Henrik, Floyd, and I shared a taxi to Beijing Capital International [...]

On Monday, April 6th, our local QCon Beijing hosts gave us a tour of Beijing. We began early with a trip to Tiananmen Square, which can hold approximately 1 million people, dwarfing any of the squares or piazzas that I’ve ever seen, and is an amazingly powerful and symbolic place and includes Mao’s Tomb [...]

On Sunday, I again took the Beijing Subway to meet up with Eric and Michael, who took me to see the Great Wall. Nothing that I have seen really comes close to the Great Wall except for some of the architecture in Rome, but the size and scope of the Wall is astounding. [...]

I don’t think anything could have prepared me for Beijing. In the US, we’re led to believe that China is a communist state, a.l.a. the former Soviet Union, but the people of China are capitalists to the extreme!
Kevin and Shinling, our local hosts, were a lot of fun to hang out with, but I [...]

After a couple of late night and early morning conference calls, and breakfast where I actually wrote and sent a first batch of postcards, on Saturday it was time to head to Incheon airport to depart for Beijing. Incheon is approximately an hour from Seoul by car (with train service still under construction). [...]

My first impression of Seoul: What an amazingly modern, clean city. Incheon airport is shockingly clean and modern, customs was a breeze, luggage retrieval fast, and my ride was waiting and drove me to the Shilla on the most modern highway I’ve ever been on.
After flying in daylight, I arrived at my room in [...]

Is it cruel to send friends and co-workers living in colder climates pictures like this?

It’s been a ridiculously warm winter this year, and unusually cold for the rest of the nation, and I find myself compelled to let our friends in Minnesota and Wisconsin know what they’re missing, such as a March 1st high of [...]

On this day of thanks, on a professional level, I’m really thankful that Dojo is such a thriving community, and SitePen is able to work with such amazing and great companies.
A few people have asked me privately if I am upset that Alex is joining Google. The short answer is, absolutely not. Alex [...]

I had thought about writing a treatise on why bailouts are bad, but Ron Paul saved me the time with his article that is appropriately called “The Bailout Surge“, a clear poke at the Iraq Surge (emphasis below is mine):
We must remember that governments do not produce anything. Their only resources come from producers [...]

I’d like to propose a simple plan to really change things in the US. I don’t really know if this is even an original idea, but here it goes…
Our current woes are due in large part to the two-party duopoly of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the people controlling the candidates within those [...]