We were working on some customer issues the other day and it another customer was having problems, you know double whammy. What was interesting is that a more senior person started talking about the customer about “they’re such a problem” and then talking about strange things they did in the past. As we dug into their …

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I just read a post talking about the “Does your startup pass The Sleep Test“, in principal the idea is sound it’s a little simplistic. Fifteen years ago I worked as a consultant, the money was good but the problem I quickly realized is that fundamentally I was just trading time for money. We can all see how a …

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I got a new laptop.. Yeah! Part of the idea of this new laptop is to run a bunch of vmware sessions to do some multi-server development. Lots of ram, fast CPU… now the challenge is getting the unix enviornment working. I’ve been using gentoo at work for a while — also on my own personall server — it’s nice, but it’s a …

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Over the years I’ve had the chance to work with my friend Matt twice — once at Excite@Home (via blue mountain arts) a second time at Yahoo on Mail. He has to be one of the more upbeat people I’ve worked with through the years, one thing he’s said so many times that it’s almost comical (ok, maybe it’s just me snickering …

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