Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Man, I have a bee in my bonnet about this.
There is nothing I'd rather do than give up this day job with $BIG_COMPANY and survive on my writing while I whiled away the days trying to learn to code to maybe build an app that I want. Apparently (according to ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
A thoughtful piece from 37Signals on the necessity to monetise Twitter
"That doesn’t exonerate them from building a more stable service. Especially not considering that they have five million dollars of other people’s money to do it with and a few years of practice."
"If the growth in Twitter usage was mirrored ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
"One thing I’ve come to realize is that urgency is overrated. In fact, I’ve come to believe urgency is poisonous. Urgency may get things done a few days sooner, but what does it cost in morale? Few things burn morale like urgency. Urgency is acidic.
Emergency is the only urgency. Almost ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A bit of satire for a Friday afternoon courtesy of McSweeney's Internet Tendency:
Skiing
Yachting
Snorkeling
Golf
Polo
Dinner parties
Shopping
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A while ago I ragged on Robert Scoble (almost silently because, let's face it, who read my tripe?) because he was talking about marketing and startups and worked at Microsoft. See the oxymoron there? Working at arguably the most powerful corporation in the world (yeah, they know the backdoor codes ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Dear Colleague
You are invited to attend a Frameworks Entrepreneur workshop to be held at Northern Ireland Science Park, with a presentation on:
“The Venture Capital Process”
By Peter Stafford of A&L Goodbody
Programme Overview:
Raising money in today's environment is no easy task -- but it can be done if you focus on the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
John Gruber writes:
"Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong. And it’s creepy, in a Microsoft-of-the-’90s way, when it’s a $150 billion company cloning an app from a 10-person company."
This is the #1 demotivator for me when it comes to software development. It's an unreasonable fear ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
HiveLogic on getting into The Zone in modern offices:"There’s no choice about how or when you’re expected produce, or under what circumstances. Here is your computer, here is your workstation, you have the tools, the florescent lights are turned on, why don’t you go ahead and get to work, ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Back in 2006 I seriously investigated the possibility of setting up a co-working facility in Belfast. At the time I was pretty much asset-free :) I had a working, profitable business but not enough capital to undertake something of this magnitude. We were looking at a 3 storey building within ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Lazy locals can't have it both ways.
...there's little appetite for taking one of those vegetable-picking jobs of up to £7-an-hour. One group of lads:
"No mate I'd prefer to sign-on than do that."
"I don't want to work in like no cornfield."
"I don't want to work with a load of foreigners."
This ...
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