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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Category Archives: Management
What is Web 2.0 and why do (some) journalists fear it?
I thought the guys from the [O’Reilly Insight Group](http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/schedule/detail/3445) did a really good job of summing up what “Web 2.0” is: * Listening – To your customers, readers, partners, etc. * Participation – Joining into the conversations and relationships that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Journalism, Management, Technology
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My favorite Web development laws
From the [great list over at Blue Flavor](http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/thinking/the_immutable_laws_of_web_design_and_development.php): ###Lister’s Law### People under time pressure don’t think faster. ###Hofstadter’s Law### A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Posted in Management, Programming
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For journalists, it’s less about business, more about audience
[Yelvington](http://www.yelvington.com/blog/yelvington) is talking about [a bias against the business side of journalism](http://www.yelvington.com/20080203/are_journalists_antibusiness) and a class called [Business and Future of Journalism](http://cronkite.asu.edu/mcguireblog/?p=50#more-50). I would tend to agree that too many members of the [Fourth Estate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate) are phobic when it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Journalism, Management
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My day is wide
Just read [a great post on the differences between being a programming and being a manager of programmers](http://blog.eod.com/post/18462877). My days have become increasingly wide, I’d like to think my developers days are deeper. And while I do long for days … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Technology
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Human nature vs. good business sense
I was home sick the other day with an awful sinus headache and stomach flu. About the only bright side was that I got to watch [Battlestar Galactica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%28re-imagining%29) on DVD. I thought to myself, “Boy this is a really great … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Management
Tagged business, sociology
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