Tag Archives: Business

I love my Kindle (even though I don’t technically own a kindle, I own an iPad and Android tablet that have the Kindle reader on them).  I have read far...

When we moved into our house, we found a great builder here in Raleigh to do some work on our house.  He was (and is) a true craftsman.  The work...

As a developer of applications that are generally specialized and at times focused on a particular company, it always bothered me that those apps would be available in the general...

I read today with much disillusionment a recap of the speech of Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, given at the Worldwide Partner Conference. In the speech, Mr. Turner ran through the...

If you have kids, you are no doubt familiar with the refrain of “I really want to buy X” or “I need a way to make more money so I...

When was the last time you got a meaningful voicemail that you actually listened to?  I am guessing it’s been years. The reason is that no one cares about it...

I am going on a trip tomorrow and needed some new jeans.  I happened to be at one of the local shopping malls and this morning for something else, so...

I was in a meeting today where there was a lively discussion about vendor selection.  One of the participants quoted someone ( and I wish I could remember who now!...

I was watching Voyage of the Dawn Treader last weekend.  There are a series of scenes while the crew are on the way to Dragon Island where they are in an...

My wife got her first Birchbox delivery today.  In case you have not heard about this great little company, it’s worth having a look around on their site.  The site...

It seems as though in the last few weeks since I upgraded to the new version of Skype for Mac, every time I get off of a Skype call I...

I read a quote a few weeks back by Bob Cringley, one of my favorite people.  Because he is a successful author, he gets a lot of people telling him...

I was reading a post from the blog of TaxiSurfer this morning, and it reminded me of a few conversations I have had over the last couple of weeks with...

I read a lot of books about business, but it just recently came to me that I was reading them for the wrong reasons.  I’ve always read books with the...

There is a school of thought that one of the ways to help fix the health care problems in the US is for everyone to understand the true cost of...

I just got home today from a great but tiring trip to Austin for the SXSW Festival.  This is the first time I have attended the event, and it was...

The other day I got an alert from LegalZoom telling me that I had some filing deadlines approaching for a company I have an interest in.  When I clicked on...

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...