Just Ship It
One of my favorite (coworker|mentor) and I were working on a mobile app at a startup. It was a tall order, but doable. We were still in the design phase, and we were working mostly…
I’m a Robot
This evening, while sitting on the couch with my laptop, I challenged my wife to “program me” to pick up one of our son’s toys across the room. She gave me the “are you crazy…
Data Can’t Drive Your Business, Veers Into Oncoming Competition
Data can tell you who to sell to, it can tell you when to sell a certain product, it can tell you whether you should launch a product, and when to bail out of a…
I Want To Live Forever, and You Do Too : A Rant
Someday, my father is going to die. I’m not looking forward to it, but it has to happen eventually. Someday, I will die and my son will be left with my world. I’m not looking…
Building Deis (but not really)
So, it’s been a fun couple of weeks. I’ve played with mesos/marathon for quite a bit trying to build something that was simple, easy to deploy from development, highly available, and scalable. What I started…
Holy Crap Dockers, Deis’s, Kubes and Mesos
After nearly a month of experimenting with all kinds of Docker management engines, for lack of a better term, I think I’ve decided what I’m going to go with. Well almost. The entire point of…
A Story From The Past
It started as a normal day, well, as normal as any snow day could be. Nothing but chores to do and three siblings running around the house. My dad was in the basement working, and my mother was frustrated with her four excited children, with a day off from school. As the day wound down, and the sun started to set, I put on my snow gear: some sneakers, a ski jacket, sweat pants under some jeans, light sunglasses for the snow, and gloves.…
What’s The Difference?
For most – if not all – of my career, I’ve focused on small businesses and startups. The challenges that need to be solved are the best, and while they always go through the same…
The Right Time, The Right Place
Some of you may recognize this little sentence from the military: Be in the right uniform, at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. This is the simplest (sounding) task, but…
People Read This?
You read that right, people actually read this thing… Apparently there are people in the world that want to know my history – either to find out if the crazy stories I tell are true,…