Personally, I’m Thankful for Startup Culture

The startup culture as of late has been taking its lumps on Hacker News and other places, and that’s fine. There are a lot of different perspectives, and I’m not here to tell you which one is right. But I will tell you that being in a startup again is the best thing that has happened

A Week with WCF

We are at a point where what was our internal API now must live in the wild as some business partners now need access to different levels of our engine. I’ve written those awful web asmx services in C# enough to know that approach wasn’t going to cut it. I wasn’t sure people were even

Weird is the One Thing You’ve Got Going for You

I saw this morning that Seth Godin’s next book is titled:

We’re All Weird

Weird is new and weird is why this world is a great place to be.

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Godin has always embraced different ways of doing things, challenging the status quo, and going his own way. He’s the ringmaster in the creative tent,

Netflix’s Guilty Ignorance and a Social Wildfire

I admit, I didn’t expect to have thoughts on the Netflix implosion, but I guess I do, and so it goes.

Netflix’s lack of understanding their customer in the information age is simply unacceptable.

The outcome of poorly executed company strategy and every knee-jerk decision at the corporate level is a potential social wildfire. How much

Non-technical success

Living a life immersed in technology, sometimes I forget the massive power that we wield with just a few keystrokes or mouse clicks.

My grandmother was born in 1926. She and her siblings were children of a pre-technical era.

I spent some time over the past few days cleaning up some photos of her from the

I can’t see for miles and miles

Skype has fundamentally changed a lot of things in our family. My father-in-law works in China often enough and the cost of calling has become a non-issue by using Skype video calls. The quality for a real-time video going halfway around the world has always been impressive.

His first trip was in 2006. He’s been back several