Tag Archives: work

I am excited to be writing about a project I have been working on for the last four or five months.  SwitchCoder is an application which allows you to build...

Having watched the last couple of debates (vice presidential and last night’s presidential), I am struggling to understand the obsession with bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States.  Maybe it’s...

I was working on a project recently and needed to find out if the prospective vendor could actually do the work.  So, I did what everyone else does in a...

I watched an interview with Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff from the Techcrunch Disrupt Conference which happened last week in San Francisco.  You can watch the entire interview here, and it’s...

If one is around technology for any length of time, there is at some point going to come a request to sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement).  An NDA in it’s...

A few weeks back I was having breakfast with Bruce Benedict, the proprietor and creator of Cardiphonia.  Cardiphonia is a music label in the 21st century sense of the word,...

I spent the week between Christmas and New Years in Tulsa, OK visiting family.  On one of the days my wife and I decided to go get some coffee (or...

I am spending this week with family in upstate NY.  My parents have lived in the same house for close to 45 years, and I love getting up here a...

I am guilty many times of rushing to judgement about how widespread technology adoption is among the general population in the US.  I often presume that because I know about...

I witnessed two events in the past week that could not have presented a more different view the world. The first was a fundraiser last Saturday night for an organization...

I realized this past week that I have been guilty of not trying to build a company, but rather building something that might sell someday.  It’s not that selling your...

I was at a client site the other day and they were talking about some exciting new initiatives that were getting ready to kick off.  While there was a good...

I am an email junkie.  I check my email probably 50 times a day at least, either on my phone or while working at my desk.  To paraphrase an old...

I had a major internet service interruption at my office yesterday.  I called the service provider and found out that the whole block was offline and that it was going...

I was reading an article by Premal Shah of Kiva this past week.  The focus of the article was on how to do reviews for the people that work for...

I have been reading and studying the book End Malaria this week.  It’s a compilation of 62 authors who came together to help, as you might imagine, end malaria in Africa....

I have been running Rocket Hangar for about a year now.  When I started the company, I had two primary goals:  1. Do interesting and valuable work. 2. Don’t go...

I got a topic from Kade Ross (@kadeross) last night related to an article about the effect of increasing headcount on employee productivity.  You can read the article here.  The...