There are times I go to write a blog post and a thought holds me up – I think I’ve read this before, but I know I didn’t write it. I had planned to write a blog post on considering the opposite of whatever you’re doing – but Derek Sivers has already written it for [...]

Life has picked up this week.  I’m joining the daily grind with most of the population again.  It’s strange to find myself beating the sun up in the mornings.  It’s also certain that I’ll start to flirt with sleep deprivation again.  That wasn’t a problem when I was unemployed. I’m now a contractor with Lenovo, [...]

When an investor puts their own money into a startup in return for a stake in the company it’s know as angel funding. It’s the lowest level of formal funding there is, excluding bank loans and borrowed family and friends money. Why not go lower? Leprechaun funding is giving an entrepreneur enough money to get [...]

Last night, as is no surprise to regular readers of this blog, I gave the presentation at the Raleigh.rb meetup. My presentation was titled Self Marketing: An Adventure in Jazz I thought it went well: the crowd was receptive, especially given it was a non-technical talk for a technical audience.  Never sure how people will [...]

I want to remind you that I’m giving the Raleigh.rb September presentation tomorrow. Full details: 7:00 pm September 15th Red Hat Headquarters, Centennial Campus, NC State Parking and Event are Free; Parking can be found in the Red Hat parking deck I’m speaking on the non-technical topic of self marketing. My talk is called: Self [...]