Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
~ William Bridges
…Something's missing
As happens from time to time, I tweeted something that, by the end, I realized probably would've been better served as a blog post. Maybe not, since my reach is typically farther via Twitter, but still.
This morning, it hit me:
Once upon a time, I was real close to
Software, Community, Dogs, and Chocolate Cake
We've all been given projects to build something that—while it makes all the difference in the world to whomever is paying us—we could not possibly care less about. And yet, we do it, because, well, we gotta get paid. At the end of the day though, we're drained.
…I really should.
A new presentation host: SpeakerDeck
So, I was pointed towards a new (to me, anyway) way to host presentations that is much cleaner than SlideShare called SpeakerDeck, and so far I like it. They ask you to upload a PDF instead of a PPT so you'll need to save as PDF first, but as someone
…Confessions of A Job Destroyer
One of the most unfunny ironies of the rhetoric surrounding “job creators” in contemporary American politics is that most of the jobs being created (or at least, those with the greatest demand) are in the tech sector. Jobs like mine. Jobs that automate processes that used to be performed by…