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March Miscellany

Life, Nerding on March 10th, 2010 1 Comment

My tasks list says we’re due for a blog post, but I’m eyeball deep in client effluvia and staying that way until SxSW, when I will be consumed entirely.  So, interesting things on the innernets:
I don’t remember how I stumbled across the blog of Bud Caddell, and I don’t really know who he is.  I [...]

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Contractors in 2009 – A Retrospective

Life on January 19th, 2010 3 Comments

It’s one of our core beliefs that all the effort which goes into building data systems is wasted unless you are prepared to study and learn from what you collect.  Thus, it was well past time we started drinking our own Kool-aid ® in this regard.
The above graph charts the dollar amounts paid to Prelude Interactive [...]

DreamForce ‘09

Life on November 19th, 2009 No Comments

I’ve spent the week in San Francisco at the heavily attended DreamForce conference of SalesForce.com, doing my best not to get sugar poisoning from drinking the company kool-aid. It’s a substantial event, an impressive system that keeps getting better, and my vocal cords and feet and hands are sore from networking, hoofing it between [...]

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Mansion of Terra’

Life on October 25th, 2009 No Comments

Note to anyone subscribed for nonprofit or SalesForce content – nothing to see here, move along, move along.
I went up to see the Mansion of Terror last night – my second haunted house since a high school friend’s oddball dad creeped out their basement a few years running. The first, ‘Scare for a Cure’, [...]

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Management of the Absurd

Life on September 8th, 2009 No Comments

I recently read two fantastic books: “Management of the Absurd” by Richard Farson and “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely. Both are research-supported, readable takes on the fascinating phenomenons of people and organizations. I won’t tell you exactly what the lessons are because I’m sure to misstate something and they’re too good and too [...]

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