Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do one of these, you can easily relax some of the rules for longer pr...Read More
It's a concern that Tesla is not worried about building things right the first time. It's a problem that they already have a rework facility near their factory to repair things that weren't done right...Read More
SCaLE is special and this worked well for the crowd there. There's a reason I wanted SCaLE to be the first conference where I gave a talk, and was happy for UpScale to be the first place I tried out a...Read More
A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much all you need to know is that I named my cats Floppy and Flash....Read More
I've been curating my social media, as I do at the end of every year. By "curating" I mostly mean "deleting annoying rants" but also a whole lot of stuff that was timely when posted but irrelevant a w...Read More
Technology and Project Management are universal languages and themes, but they express themselves differently in different environments, different economies and different cultures. Those different exp...Read More
You have to disbelieve the client. When a mid-sized client tells you "this is the solution, when can we do it?" it's not the same as a large corporate client telling you that they've selected a softwa...Read More