Business, Culture, Writing, and Other Stuff
I've been thinking about failure a lot. My career has some doozies in its wake. I've heard people speak about failures at conferences. The current trend is to tell people failures are okay because they learn from them. I've seen some suggest extremes like encouraging failure. Back in the late 80s, "failure was not an [...]
I'll be the first to admit I find sick things funny. I listen to metal music, which is wrapped with sick imagery, usually for the sake of shock value. I get it. However, Wife Beater brand clothes cross my own arbitrary line of what I can take. Maybe because I'm a victim of childhood abuse [...]
Image by aprilzosia via Flickr I swear to the best of my memory this is the conversation I had with CapitalOne this morning: Phone: [Unknown Name, Unknown Number] Ring, Ring Me (oblivious to caller-ID): Hello Capital One Rep: [Silence and Clicking] Me (stupidly): Hello? Capital One Rep: [More clicking then the sounds of a sweat [...]
Since I finished reading Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide by Todd Zaki Warfel, I've been rethinking everything except what color I'm going to paint my house this summer. Specifically I've been mulling the entire concept of requirements, process, and communication among the various groups who collaborate to make products. Three opposing forces meet in the conference [...]
First I want to hit on the topic of small business and what it means to work in that area as a web vendor. The small business market is brutal. If your only business experience is with Fortune 500 companies and you decide to market your skills to small businesses in your area, get ready for the rack.
I thought Limewire was synonymous with virus. Does a defense contractor who is stupid enough to P2P software on the same PC with state secrets need a security clearance? Data about Obama's helicopter breached via P2P? | Security – CNET News: "What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program [...]
Why is everyone surprised when the banking bailout turns into a catastrophic failure? The AP is shocked, shocked I tell you that executives are still holding on to their jobs after the bailout (see AP: 9 in 10 execs at bailout banks remain on job). What did the AP think was going to happen to [...]
Valleywag had a post today about the show 30 Rock and the insider jokes about NBC its parent company's obsession with Six Sigma. I've been around project management for a long time, but Six Sigma is the only philosophy I've seen that would make Tom Cruise jealous (see The Creepy Corporate Cult Behind Last Night's [...]
I received a phone call from Adobe today. It was coincidence and had nothing to do with my previous rant. The person who called me was a Level 2 technician. I went through my story with him. The difference was that he was an installation expert. In the end, he couldn't help me because I [...]
Long Way From Home by The Heavy