Category: Business
Wizards are Busy People
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Something that pretty much all development shops and consultants have to deal with is the fact that clients need everything yesterday. They email you saying they have heard you are amazing and they have a huge project that they need done next week. The funniest part is that they have a good idea that you
Arguing Truth without Dismissing
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While Hackers & Painters seems like a book on programming and ‘nerds’ it’s got a bunch more to say about life in general. It’s not just about running a team and software design. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that’s a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as “divisive” or “racially
Digital TODO Lists are Failing Me
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I’ve used OmniFocus for a while now as a way to manage my daily tasks, but really I almost never actually check it. In fact almost all digital lists are things I don’t check. The real question is why don’t I check these TODOd lists daily? Often it comes down to the fack that I’m
Status Board for Solo Devs
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Panic came out with something that looks really cool in Status Board, at least for teams. I work 99% of the time by myself and that makes Status Board cool, but not useful. I have no desire to see my incoming emails (I keep all badges and notifications off already). Twitter should be time boxed
My Unfair Financial Playground
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We’ve been teaching the Total Money Makeover (affiliate) at our church lately since it’s changed our lives and how we look at spending. An interesting thing I’ve found though is how I treat my business finances. My Playground Currently I basically pay myself on salary. Every month I transfer a set amount to our family
Monthly Project Scheduling
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Well OmniFocus has fallen by the wayside, at least mostly. It seems that I don’t so much need a daily list of the things I should be doing, I need a monthly project calendar. Projects Overlap Despite my best intentions lately, I’ve got way to many projects overlapping. One was delayed because of server issues
Real Programmers Don’t Talk
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While this article is talking to writers, read it and change the word Writer to programmer. I have one friend who has been talking about ‘programming’ for years without actually writing much code at all. Now I love him dearly, but if you don’t write code, you’re not a programmer. Don’t wait for the code
Maximum Consumerism
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I buddy of mine wrote about Optimizing for the Maximum. In short we buy a huge house because we occasionally have the whole family over. But really it’s a few days a year, and the rest of the time we just have a huge item to maintain. Bob’s article made me think of this post
Support Over Board
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Gone are the days of citing a slight unhappiness with a service and not being inundated with ‘helpful’ people. I recently cited a reason I wasn’t happy with a Rackspace server I deal with for a client. My issues are: No SSH access Always runs slow Now it’s on my client to purchase servers with
A Business in Debt…
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The wife and I have been working through the Total Money Makeover (affiliate) and I’m happy to say we’re debt free (which doesn’t count the mortgage). Now we weren’t ever in huge amounts of debt. We had a car payment, but that’s about it. We haven’t carried credit card debt in years. Now read this
