The Passionate Project Manager Percolating

“And therein lies the company’s biggest flaw in my estimation—impatience with those not quick enough to grasp the obvious truth of Google’s vision.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576444363668512764.htm…

Google’s expectation regarding Google+ seems to be that we would all dump Twitter and Facebook for Google+, thereby accepting “the obvious truth of Google’s vIsion”. I’m guessing that this probably explains why it is impossible to share to Twitter and Facebook from Google+ (and vice-versa). The end result? I rarely post to Google+.

I’d post this on Google+ but I can’t from here. This post will show up on Twitter and Facebook, though, as well as a few other sites.

So much for my accepting Google’s “obvious truth”, eh?

Apr 27

Of these scarily ambitious start-up ideas, my favourite is replace email. Yes, please.

Email is so broken that it stuns me that we still haven’t replaced it yet. But it needs to be replaced with something that’s just as easy (if not easier). And, no, not Google Wave.
As for the “sufficiently smart compiler”? Yeah, that one went kind of over my head.
http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Of these scarily ambitious start-up ideas, my favourite is replace email. Yes, please.

Apr 26

Sure, Free is a business model. Just don’t forget the revenue part.

I loved Chris Anderson’s book Free which I listened to…wait for it…for free. (On iTunes, in case you’re wondering.)
But even Chris preaches the idea that Free has to lead to money eventually, whether it’s the freemium model (aka Flickr), give me your data and I sell advertising (Facebook), or sell a toy and provide the website for free (Webkins).
As put by this blog post from Pinboard (link below): free forever and for everything just can’t work.
The irony of typing this in my Posterous blog (free) on my iPhone using a (free) app is not lost on me…

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

Oct 21

I’m celebrating a milestone 18 months in the making with a Pinot Grigio #PMOT

See the full gallery on Posterous

I threw in a risotto ai funghi misti just for fun. (And a tiramisu. Because of the 18 months part.)
Celebrating milestones is the first rule of project management, isn’t it?
On Fridays, it most certainly is.

Oct 18

Trying to understand #occupywallstreet? Read these. Then get angry.

First, read about who are the 99%.

Then understand that “It’s the Inequality Stupid”.

Then get angry.

Mar 20

The centuries-old problem of information overload.

via boston.com

I love it how history teaches us, over and over again, that nothing is “new”. Including the Internet.

Feb 25

This video makes me laugh. Because the hydrocoptic technology is soooo Rockwell. ;)

Even though I am “only” a Project Manager, even I know that a much more effective solution to the side fumbling problem, rather than the cumbersome fitting of six (6!) hydrocoptic marzul vanes to the ambaphascient lunar wain shaft, is to replace the lunar wain shaft entirely with the much more elegant fault-tolerant optomodal cavity, which creates the population inversion condition at the outset.

I mean, hello!

But then, after all, I did work for Honeywell for four years…

Feb 19

An anthropological look at how Relationships influence Language, with lovely art thrown in. So many levels of awesome.

via youtube.com

This is awesome on so many levels: how relationships affect innuendo in language, the power of crowds (my favourite subject), and why you should avoid powerpoint bullets in a presentation (didn’t feel those 10 minutes go by).

Oh look, there’s a video on how we broke Capitalism!
(And she stayed in her pajamas all day glued to the computer.)

The Passionate Project Manager Percolating

May 02

Google’s “fatal flaw” kind of explains Google+

Apr 27

Of these scarily ambitious start-up ideas, my favourite is replace email. Yes, please.

Of these scarily ambitious start-up ideas, my favourite is replace email. Yes, please.

Apr 26

Sure, Free is a business model. Just don’t forget the revenue part.

Oct 21

I’m celebrating a milestone 18 months in the making with a Pinot Grigio #PMOT

Oct 18

Trying to understand #occupywallstreet? Read these. Then get angry.

Mar 20

The centuries-old problem of information overload.

Feb 25

This video makes me laugh. Because the hydrocoptic technology is soooo Rockwell. ;)

Feb 19

An anthropological look at how Relationships influence Language, with lovely art thrown in. So many levels of awesome.

Feb 13

Tunisia, Egypt…is the corporate monarchy next? I can only hope…