Tag: leadership
Competition is Heating Up for Garage Sales
Competition is Welcome
In the search for viral patterns that can sustain and nourish rapid growth for our budding web business I came across a few other yard sale search sites. One had a well designed iPhone app and site (Garage Sales Tracker, Rich contacted me representing their site so the least I could do was link back), another was a stand alone web site that’s been around a while but neither is positioned quite the same way as garagedollar.
Highs and Lows Come and Go, But Will is Relentless
Back in December I mentioned the importance of persistence with respect to anything worth doing. It’s the most important single predictor of future success or failure. I’ve updated my view on this last bullet: (more…)
Analogy and Machine Intelligence
When Teaching Fishing, Bait the Hook
Small Changes Provide Big Opportunities to the Next Gen
Corporate HQ in Paradise
Probe: A fictional programming language
This morning’s riff is a beginning for a new programming language which may end up being a dialect or library of an existing language after I take a look at what I’ve written. I’ll begin with an example of how I’d like code to look and function, and then wrap up with some design priorities and benefits. I would like a language that makes the process of learning easier and more streamlined. Probe stands for anything you want. At the moment for me probe stands for PROgram By Essel, PROgram BE, Produce Relational Ontologies By Example, and/or Pattern Refined Organization Born Easily 
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Global Communication for Free
Organizations where founders are at the bottom, universal ownership
It’s healthy, especially for a startup nut like me, to consider other community formats besides the classic capitalistic new business. If you believe in an idea enough, the concept of creating financial capital with it fades off of the priority list. Sure, this is supposed to be at the core of altruistic non-profits, but they appear much more like corporate structures from the outside in the way they are managed. I’m more curious at what’s left in the wake of the elephant of financial growth or personal greed vacating the room.
Technological and Product Commitment
There comes a time in any explorative learning phase where a team has to make a serious commitment to a chosen technology. Every day spent working with web programming exposes me to a few new libraries, frameworks, and languages. I could literally spend the rest of my life learning about web technology without shipping a product, but successful people ship! I will work towards a position where at least a portion of my work schedule is free for learning new tech.