I brought my car in for service today. They gave me a complimentary rental, which was the Nissan Leaf. I drove it for 10 minutes so far, so this won’t be too in-depth. Super Cool Golf Cart I didn’t realize this until today. The Nissan Leaf has NO GAS ENGINE at all. This is not…
Over the past few years, I have been managing more and more and individually contributing less and less. This is how I scale my value to the company. I train other people to do what I used to do myself so I can get more output more as a department than as an individual worker.…
I want an electric car. This is ridiculous. The picture below is me after paying.
There is a new style I keep seeing around the internet. I love it. Check out MemeFaces and the The Fuuuu Comics and Membase. They crack me up. They basically make fun of the current fads (memes) and use pop culture images or line drawings to illustrate. See samples below. You can create comic strips with these…
I can’t decide what I like. Beard and receding hair or shaved head and face. What do you think? (Animated GIF below) It’s less work to have the beard at first, but trimming it can be a pain. Plus, I hate how I can see my hair going away. With a shaved head, it’s all gone, so…
I’ve been asked recently about my abilities related to public speaking. I feel very comfortable in front of a crowd and can tell stories and relate information in an engaging way. I don’t want to sound too conceited, but I am pretty good at it. The questions, however, relate to whether it is something you…
From kindergarten through 2nd grade I lived in a lower-middle class neighborhood in New York called Spring Valley. I had friends. In fact, in second grade, I was popular; mainly because I was tall, athletic and smart. A girl even kissed me under a big stone turtle statue. Teachers loved me because I learned quickly. I was…
Truth: Most products are not that good. I don’t blame terrible designers or unreasonable managers for this. The bottom line is: It is incredibly difficult to develop a product that is great. I mocked up a diagram to help explain. Imagine you are in space, with a basketball. You are floating in one direction in…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ Let’s just assume you don’t have sound because the music was pure ridiculousness. I don’t want to get hung up on the cheesiness of the video. I want to focus on the unicycle itself. Here is my description of the features: Like a unicycle, but requiring less skill. No pedals or need to know how…
My hands are not small. My pockets are not small. I want a bigger phone. I don’t want to hold an iPad up to my head, but I do want a bigger phone. Here it is: The Samsung Galaxy Note. Apparently it will be available in Europe first this weekend. However, I would like it…
Disclaimer: I am a progressive. I believe taxes should be raised for people making more than 750k per year and defense spending should be cut in half and the National Endowment for the Arts funding should be increased 100x. With that disclaimer out of the way I have to say that I do not understand…
I was invited over the weekend to speak at the Wakanday 2011 conference title JS.Everywhere. It was a fascinating gathering because the emphasis was not on JavaScript in a browser, but rather on the server. 4D is the company sponsoring the event. They have had a database server product for decades and are trying to…
<rant class=”entertainment cheese-move”> I just received this this email from the Netflix founder. After receiving the previous message about the hikes in the prices, I lowered our subscription to the $10 a month level. After this email, I lowered it to the $5 a month level. If they send me one more stupidly conceived email, I…
I spent a good part of last week at Dreamforce in San Francisco. It’s a major tradeshow put on by Salesforce.com. The pattern of my week was very different than normal. Lots of people, parties, interactions. Some of these people came directly out of my past. People I trained on Marketo years ago. People I…