Tag Archives: Business

I was at lunch with a local successful entrepreneur today, and he shared these four questions to ask when figuring out whether or not an idea is worth pursuing.  I...

Over the last few weeks I have realized how valuable other people’s opinions are, and furthermore how valuable collaboration is.  This is not a universal truth.  Glenn Beck and Bill...

We have had an uptick of break-ins in our neighborhood.  Apparently the security companies are aware of this, and one of them and paid us a visit over the weekend...

I was in a meeting a couple of days ago with a non-profit organization that is doing great things ( or at least trying to ).  They are building out...

I was sitting at home this weekend watching some of the football games, and had the opportunity to watch both Apple ( primarily iPad, but the same is true of...

One of the great gifts of being a professional in technology is the gift of re-invention.  What was true of me yesterday does not have to be true of me...

I was in a meeting the other day at a local technology company.  There were seven people in there with me, and one on the phone.  Every person involved in...

Every now and then I come across a book I had at one point wanted to read but for some reason let get off of my radar.  Such was the...

More Shipping I spent the last few months of 2010 getting the foundation laid for what I hope is a successful 2011.  Success in 2011 means shipping.  Shipping takes on...

I enjoy studying my own ineptitude when it comes to staying on task.  I have come to the realization that my best work happens in one to two hour bursts...

Two years ago, no one could have imagined ( except maybe the folks that run Facebook ) that they would be flipping Google the proverbial middle finger.  I wrote about this...

I have spent the last few weeks in a mental fog.  When I started Rocket Hangar my initial thoughts were that I would not have enough to do, and that...

I have been following the recent trend with the two largest pizza franchises in the US for the last few weeks.  Domino’s and Papa John’s have taken to slugging it...

After a lot of different attempts, I have finally settled on a good system for using the features of Priority Inbox in GMail. What I started out with as a...

I received a link to an article today on Eric Schmidt’s vision of the future, a world where passive search is the norm, not active.  In the article, Mr. Schmidt...

I have noticed lately that everyone is using Agile software development.  I wrote about this trend at Symantec previously, and since leaving, I have noticed it in a number of...

I spend a lot of time on my own.  I work out of my basement in my house, and most of the work I do is over chat or the...

A wise man once said “There are two kinds of people in the world.  The kind of people that divide the world into two kinds of people, and the kind...