Auri's Blog

From my latest LinkedIn insight contribution:

There is no substitute for real experience. You can’t expect to be a star basketball player having only attended gym class. At the very least, you start with joining a team. It’s the same with software careers. You must experience real world software dev, with real world problems, and, well, real world people. Don’t be afraid of failure – that’s expected in the beginning. It’s the same pattern as everything else new you’ve tried in your life. Internships give you the real world experience, and are a crash course in the “Fail quickly” approach. Fail, then try again, knowing your team is there to support and correct you. That experience will translate directly into your first real job, and translate to increased earning potential.

Liq, my new spirit collection and management website is now in beta! As a bourbon collector and enthusiast, this was a passion project. I wanted to be able to manage my collection AND my tastings, and share them with friends. Liq lets you do that easily, and you can hold live tastings with your friends. So all of you can join in and share notes, and recollect them later!

Check it out today! https://liq.live

Lots of awesome things you can do:

• Manage your bourbon, whiskey, rum, cognac, gin, and other spirit bottles
• Create tastings with standard observations, including Nose, Palate, and Finish
• Score your tastings
• Relate your tastings to bottles in your collection, so you can see how consistent you are over time, and how your palate and tastes change
• Share tastings with the public
• Hold Live Tastings with friends

If there are features you would like to see, post them here.