My kids are aged 21 through 31 now, but we always had a family meeting every Sunday morning before we’d all clean up the house, because we have five kids and everybody has scheduled stuff.
So we’d sit down every Sunday morning and everybody would get their schedule out. The kids would have their schedules and […]
One of the most powerful and underused tools in any manager’s toolkit is “I have no opinion”. In fact, it’s useful for anyone who is asked to provide input on a thing.
Unless you’re contributing real value to a question — don’t answer it. Unless you can really answer “why do you hold this opinion” — […]
As I mentioned, I was at this investment meeting last week. They gave us a bunch of papers, and being a giant nerd, I actually read the stuff. (Hey, I do want to retire, and sooner rather than later)
There were a few things I read that I think are interesting for the long term.
According to […]
Last night I went to this investment meeting, where a bunch of people in suits told me about the economy, and why they’re doing a good job. I took a few notes and wanted to share.
Oh, and in reference to the title, the first speaker, in one of his first slides, put up two graphics. […]
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Last night, we had Ignite Orlando. For those of you who don’t know, an Ignite event consists of presentations, 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide = 5 minute presentations.
I re-presented some of my AAC09 Oauth talk. It was a lot of fun — the presentation format is cool. Everyone seemed to dig the presentation, the […]
I’m on the internet! Talking about OAuth!
I found this and thought it might be useful to someone. Paying it forward.
How to restore your hacked WordPress database from Google Cache through Ruby
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When I went to the GTD conference, I saw David Allen use his two-minute timer during the presentation. I thought it was a good idea, and based on a conversation I just had with Thomas, I finally looked one up. Allen’s was only for Windows, but I found free ones for Windows and OSX. Sorry […]
Hey kids! Guess who’s presenting at Acts as Conference, 2009! These guys! Also, some guy with a big nose.
I’m giving a talk on OAuth, the greatest way to protect your APIs while keeping your users secure. Simple, easy, fun, and it might even get you laid. The amazing, spectacular, splendiforous OAuth! Yea. It’s gonna be […]
I saw this video of Adam Savage talking at The Last Hope this past year. I recommend it. It’s awesome to see how dedicated he is, and what it takes to produce such great stuff.
Other than getting a preview of (then) new Mythbuster footage and getting to see a downloaded AVI of The Dark Knight […]