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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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
BoyGeniusReport reports on a curious exchange between a Mac owner and Apple's Steve Jobs. Said customer was irate because he spilled water on his MacBook Pro and was quoted a base $300 to start the repair with no guarantee it would fix the unit. He emailed Steve Jobs and the ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something.
The rant this ...
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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 ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Startup | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
It was nice to see a Belfast Blogger on Macsurfer this morning though it went a little sour when I read the comments.
The biggest thing I like about blogging is the potential for conversation and by extension, for resolution. It's also an opportunity to present both sides of a "truth" ...
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