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Posts from ‘May, 2009’

Your Baby is Ugly

I’m not kidding, you have one ugly baby.
Its not your fault…well probably not your fault.
Did you drop him a lot in the first few weeks you brought him home?
No?
Hmm….
I’ve never personally had this conversation with anyone,
::Two points

Yes, I’ve seen this done on Seinfeld…if you haven’t watched Seinfeld go grab a copy of the complete series.  [...]

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Management Books are Bunk

This article was kicked up last week on Hacker News, http://news.ycombinator.com, and I thought I would share it here with the group.
The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200606/stewart-business
This is a long article…long even by my standards.  Set aside some time and curl up with your laptop and a frosty mug of your favorite beverage.
For those of you [...]

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How I Landed at Viewpoint

This summer I will be starting my seventh year at Viewpoint Systems…wow, seven years…that’s an eternity in the software world.  Anyone remember the Pentium 2 and how they were packaged in those large black cassettes?  Is anyone still using AIM, or are you one of the cool kids who is ‘facebooking’ and ‘twittering’?  The list [...]

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How Valuable are Yearly Reviews?

It is that time of the year again, where managers and employees alike sit down and attempt to sum up an entire year in a few short pages or less, in a little process I like to call “Writing the Yearly Review”.
I hate this time of year.
::change my voice to that of a child about [...]

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