I believe there is value in the identification of ones beliefs. Knowing what you believe helps you find others that share your beliefs and it helps you crystalize what’s important to you in life. So here is portion of beliefs that have been cruising around my head lately. Trends swing like a pendulum that slowly [...]
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Its always thrilling to get reviewed on ones work. I had been waiting for a while for this, but must have missed it showing up recently. It’s great validation of the direction I took. And since this is my one customer… And his requests align with what I’d like the app to be… Then he’ll [...]
Having only sold 60 copies of GoodDay you probably should seek advice outside of this post, but these are the things I learned in my app store process. 1. Research your name, keywords, and categories by searching and browsing both the store and google. These are things you can’t change after your app is approved. [...]
Hmmm… I wonder what’s not easy to read, thin, and under a pound?!?!
Over the weekend I finished Rework and figured I’d share some quotes from it as well. This book was excellent and the perfect complimentary read to Linchpin. There was a lot of overlap and similar concepts. While Linchpin was more psychology, Rework gets a little more practical and specific in it’s advice. Now, onto the [...]
Thanks to the birth of our first son I’ve been granted a lot of reading/feeding time. You could say that this was baby Gabe’s first book. I can’t say what he thought about the book, but I can say that I really enjoyed it. It was the first book I’ve read using the Amazon Kindle [...]
My Starbucks has slow service and they are going to improve. How do I know this? They’ve posted it right next to where I pick up my drink. They seem to be posting the results, each month, of the local customer satisfaction cards for everyone, including their employees to see. They aren’t shy about this [...]
Everyone believes that their product has a few strengths, This is the set of things that your product does better than anything else out there. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be building it right? But do you really know what those strengths are? The reality is that you have very little to do with [...]
It’s that time of year and as Frank Costanza famously said… “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people…” This years list is a large one so bear with me. Google Chrome and every other company that decided to release their own web browser – I love you, but you’ve added yet another browser [...]
Jana sent around a set of questions to the Product PM team at Telligent today that made me write up this blog entry about some of my favorite 2009 things related to our work life. 1. What was your favorite work-related or field related or technical read for 2009 (white paper, book, etc) My favorite [...]
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