Archive for December, 2007

Scalable Business Systems

Building scalable systems isn’t limited only to technology. Often you can take the lessons learned from Computer Science and apply those same techniques to business systems and dramatically improve the effectiveness of a business.
During a company meeting at one of my previous jobs one, of the executives was berating the company as a whole [...]

What everyone should know about the proper use and deployment of Tasers

With all of the Taser incidents getting more media attention now, I thought I’d point out a discussion on the Diane Rehm show this morning on NPR. This is the best most thought out discourse I’ve heard on Taser incidents. Not only do they have a spokesperson from Amnesty international and an associate [...]

Starting a MicroISV in record time.

I’ve mentioned Patrick McKenzie’s blog before. Patrick’s experience has been very interesting. He started his company called Bingo Card Creator in record time. He stayed laser focused on the problem he was trying to solve, and rather than goofing around with it for months on end, he got it out the door [...]