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Brother-in-Law Syndrome: or, Why Your Technology Sucks

September 30, 2009

One of the things that irks me most about a lot of the technology systems I’ve seen or heard about is just how badly set up they are. I call this the “brother-in-law syndrome.” brother-in-law syndrome – n. – The belief that because your brother-in-law/husband/friend “knows a lot about technology,” he/she is qualified to set [...]

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Full-Time Entrepreneurship: Day 1

September 29, 2009

I woke up late, of course. I say “of course,” because I’d forgotten to ensure that my alarm clock was actually on before I went to bed. 8:45 already – damn! I laid in bed for a while contemplating the patterns of light and shadow on my ceiling. It took a while to remind myself [...]

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Intrepid(ation).

September 21, 2009

Friday evening, some friends of mine and I got together for an “Entrepreneur’s Roundtable”. The call was great, and my good friend Stef (having been a software entrepreneur in a previous life) was fantastic at answering questions on all sorts of things from neurolinguistic programming as a marketing technique to strategies for setting up one’s [...]

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You Need A Plan. Seriously.

August 14, 2009

A server went down today. One server out of 1,800 servers in a ginormous server farm belonging to the company I currently work for (the company I’m going to leave in order to join the IttyBiz 1000 any day now). This server is just like its 1,800 brethren – an oblong jobby with lots of [...]

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