Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Really, is anyone else surprised that this hasn’t happened sooner? I’m 41 years old and after my last visit to the Googleplex I felt like applying for an AARP card, it was difficult to point out anyone my age walking around that campus. A state appeals court reinstated a fired manager’s age-discrimination suit against Google [...]
Eddie Herrmann cracks me up and with partner in crime Dan McWeeney they put together the sickest demo at the TechEd demo jam.
I sat next to 5 young soldiers on my flight home today. I was flying home, they were flying to Hawaii for R&R before deploying to Iraq. To say they were impressive young men would be an understatement, and I thought of them when I watched the video of Gen. Peter Pace’s farewell speech. Pace [...]
Winer is saying that Techmeme is a cesspool, I disagree. While it is obvious that people say stupid shit to get attention on Techmeme, isn’t it true that just kind of happens all over the place? I’ve written on more than one occasion that I’m a fan of Gabe’s work, and that comes from having [...]
Props to Coté for a coining a great term. His post on TechEd ’07 CommunityDay is interesting on a couple of levels, this caught my attention: For me, the most interesting aspect of the sessions was the hunger the audience generally had to get the code. For example, Thomas Jung demo’d a way to build [...]
I love the idea of online to-do lists but readily admit that the idea of to-do lists almost always exceeds the reality of online to-do lists. With the plethora of technology available to us today it’s almost hard to imagine that a pencil and a scrap of paper still make a more effective task list. [...]