PinnedAll Our Heroes Are MonstersBut can we buy our soul back? This famous proverb in its entirety is better than the first sentence alone; a sentence people misquote not knowing how powerful the whole statement is. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…” — Lord Actons Martin Shkreli is that big pharma…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
Mar 15Why return to tech offices will failThere are several toxic truths about being in an office. Offices are a miserable place made worse by even worse, oppressive practices. Open concept kills morale Sitting there making eye contact with people constantly is distracting. Sitting in a cube is less soul-crushing when you have privacy and you don’t have…2 min read2 min read
Jan 19Rethink OffshoreWe’re in some tough times, not unique, but similar to what we have experienced before, with a few new twists. We are going to re-evaluate what is a marriage of convenience between US tech companies and the folks we use either offshore or that come to the States. For a…Offshore Development5 min readOffshore Development5 min read
Oct 19, 2022Loyalty should only be 9–5Hate the game, not the player Cliffs: If an employee regularly works after business hours, it’s because they should want to, not because it is something management has come to expect just because they can call you at home 24/7 with unrealistic expectations of personal access. Let them have a…2 min read2 min read
Aug 25, 2022Failed Real Estate AgentsI have to say something, something mean, and I know it. Real estate agents in general tend to be people that tried something else and were not good at it so they thought they could sell houses. Ask ANY real estate agent “What were you before this?” because there has…Las Vegas2 min readLas Vegas2 min read
Jul 21, 2022The Most Ethical Product ReviewEvery scumbag on the internet these days is an “influencer” that lacks credibility and a basic understanding of how to disclose how they got a product, what the transaction looks like and basically really terrible negotiation skills. Influencers are not business people, and it shows. Most reviews are compensated and…Influencer Marketing2 min readInfluencer Marketing2 min read
Jul 14, 2022Admitting Your Product SucksI’d say that greater than half of all redesigns and refreshes to sites these days are only hanging an air freshener on the dead corpse that is your product. …3 min read3 min read
Jun 21, 2022Changing Legacy Mindsets“Your favorite song would be nothing but noise to Mozart” Recently I was part of a large company with a large deployment of devices to specific businesses, these devices rarely changed once deployed on-prem to clients, some locations had as many as 4k. Kind of quasi-POS systems. They were just…Careers4 min readCareers4 min read
May 24, 2022Masterclass, honest reviewIt’s garbage. It’s lectures, not educational. Go to Skillshare, or Coursera, or Edx, or your local library instead, I think. Six months in as of today; I had three of those months totally forgetting I was a member. It’s that bad. …2 min read2 min read
Jan 11, 2022Why Developers Love MetaphorsSimiles, parables, analogies, semantics… Being the more technically inclined of our species, and knowing everyone you talk to won’t understand the difference between none, null, and not defined, and how a single misused semicolon can ruin your entire week; we have to “dumb down” in our own petty condescending ways…HTML3 min readHTML3 min read
