Category Archives: Thoughts

Chris Brogan wrote a piece on his site about writing three blog posts per day. When talking about blogging, I often hear these things: I don’t have time Where do you find the time to keep engaged It takes so much work There’s no way I can do that This is how Chris finds time:Continue reading “Writing More Blog Posts”

This is a fantastic recording of the visual note taking presentation at South by Southwest 2010 featuring Austin Kleon, Mike Rohde, Sunni Brown & Dave Gray. Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010

Text messages are expensive. The maximum character count for a text message is 160. That’s 160 bytes for you nerds out there. Assuming the going rate of text messages at AT&T ($0.20 per message without a plan), that comes out to $1,310 per megabyte. That’s why they encourage you to sign up for their textContinue reading “Text Messages is a Scam That’s Accepted by Consumers”

Traditionally, projects have followed a plan, define requirements, do, test, and deploy model. There is a lot of upfront planning and scoping the project. A plan is created to design and develop a product. This cycle takes a long time and has a period where the end user custom isn’t involved in the process. WhenContinue reading “Using an Iterative Process to Product Development”

The New York Time developed an amazing webapp that allows you to make policy decisions to attempt to close the Federal budget deficit. It’s too easy to say that congress isn’t doing their job, or the President is wrong, etc. Instead, this is your chance to sit in the chair and make the decisions. WhatContinue reading “Interactive: Fix the Federal Budget Deficit”

At work, we have an army of administrators who manage all aspects of our company from HR, Finance, and IT. At home, it’s just my wife and me. In my opinion, automation is the only option. I just refuse to do manual processing. If it’s not automated, I’m not going to do it. I don’tContinue reading “Designing, Building, and Running Your Own Personal Business System”