Hi, I'm Darian Shimy
Founder & CEO of FutureFund
I build technology that helps K-12 schools raise money and engage their communities. I write about leadership, entrepreneurship, coaching, and the craft of building products.
Recent Posts
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Entrepreneur Series #18: Using Conflict to Build Culture
The final chapter: why the conflict you avoid is the culture you lose.
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Deploying Rails 8 on Google Cloud: Containers, Deploys, and Production Config
Part 4 of 4 — Dockerizing Rails 8, writing Kubernetes manifests, running migrations, and deploying with zero downtime to GKE.
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Entrepreneur Series #17: Teen Tantrums Made Me a Better Boss
What handling emotional teenagers taught me about managing workplace stress.
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Entrepreneur Series #16: Supportive Without Soft
How to build a workplace that cares deeply and still gets things done.
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Deploying Rails 8 on Google Cloud: GKE Cluster Setup
Part 3 of 4 — Building a production GKE cluster with ingress, TLS, Cloud SQL Proxy, health checks, and monitoring for Rails 8.