So, the New Rainmaker platform came out. I know this would be a gamechanger for me, so much so that I called it one of my two “big scaries”: The New Rainmaker platform Learning Ruby On Rails (gulp) (I recently read “Good to Great” by Jim Collins, in which he references BHAGs – Big Hairy […]
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User experience is important, it gets talked about a lot. And today, more than ever, you are using technology – software – as an integral part of your daily life. User experience, or UX, refers to what it feels like when you use any kind of software. But it would be a mistake to limit
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One of the fondest memories I have of my Dad is our Wednesday nights together when I was a child. It was his responsibility to take me to my saxophone lesson in the early evening – but after that, we would not go home until we had fun. That usually meant fast food and video
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The album of the hour around here isn’t all that new – it’s Dinosaur Jr.’s “Farm” from 2009. It’s what’s been blasting from the car stereo when I take my kids to school. There’s wall of sound, the guitars, the cracked crooning of frontman J Mascis. There’s the bang-the-bass-guitar rockin-out by Lou Barlow. And there’s
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How do you really plan for the future? I grew up with a generation that isn’t exactly known for its planning. It took me a few good decades to realize that not only is planning possible, it is essential. And when we talk planning, well, the biggie is planning when it comes to money. A
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How we are all Genghis Khan I remember reading once this story about Genghis Khan, in which his aide finds him sitting in his tent at the critical point of a battle. The aide asked him what we was doing in his tent and not on the battlefront. He explained that he was angry, and
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The rice paddies of Southern China are synonymous with hard work. The sentiment was to wake up daily while it is still dark and try to get more rice out of that small piece of ground that is yours to work on. I think of these terraces filled with rice paddies that are all clustered
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They say you can’t do business with friends – or family. They say things like: “business is business,” or “that’s business.” But that explanation really doesn’t satisfy me. It hints at fostering a degree of enmity with the people with whom we do business. It’s like we save our love, friendship, and affection for when
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It dawned on me. I had to ship this site – it was standing in the way of so many other things I wanted to see done in my life – to see done in the world. There were so many things I wanted my site to look like, the story that I wanted it
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