Recently, Josh Ross noted how the metaphor of business as war is changing into a metaphor of voluntary cooperation. People are speaking about making their businesses more social. At the surface, this might seem like when the conversation was about making Web sites more interactive. This isn’t fashion. It isn’t the latest technique for improving [...]
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How can I help you?
March 6th, 2011
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Back in September of last year, I decided I was spending entirely too much time doing things I wasn’t enjoying — commuting for an hour to Berkeley via BART to spend equal parts of my time doing project management on tragically underfunded projects, participating in marathon executive meetings, and digging around a decade-old PHP/Oracle/ActionScript/Perl codebase that preferred [...]
The Fractional CTO
October 5th, 2010
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One of my favorite things is solving technology problems. Fortunately, I get paid for that. Unfortunately, I’d rather do more of it. Therefore, I’m putting out a call to anyone interested: if you need a fractional CTO, ask me. My friends introduce me to other entrepreneurs and describe me as a genius. They usually skip [...]
Are you ready to swim?
April 10th, 2010
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“The truth hits everyone like a million atom bombs, and I can’t understand how everybody can be so calm. Time is running out and we all just sit around. So leave your message at the beep, ’cause I am leaving town.” –Leave a Message, Get Dead Yesterday was Tax Freedom Day, although here in California [...]
