From the category archives:
You know the phrase:
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Right? You hear it a lot.
But what if, in fact, invention is the mother of necessity. Once the technology exists, we then complicate things, demand more, and use up the productivity gain in raising the quality bar.
Take budgets, for example. I realize it’s hard for most people [...]
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Almost 20 Years ago I developed a software product called Forecaster. You start with an empty chart. Then you assign values to vertical and horizontal. Then you draw a line with your mouse, and Forecaster generates the numbers that correspond to the line.
It was built as something you could use in a business plan. [...]
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I just read The Corporate Survivor’s Guide to Email on the Huffington Post. Thank God, at least this isn’t true in my world. I don’t think. I mean … is it? Is that what you meant? Here’s how this Nicholas Weinstock post starts.
Now More than Ever
Thank you!
Translation: F**k you. Generally found at the end [...]
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I had a worrisome email today from one of my favorite people, a colleague in many ways and a very influential blogger, in which she asks: Hi Tim, are there any changes planned to Email Center Pro soon? Such as…
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Yesterday I had a not-entirely-comfortable conversation with somebody I very much respect about my email habits. There are emails left unanswered in my email account, and she was suggesting that there shouldn’t be. People who write an email to a…
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Technology and competitive advantage. Sometimes it’s like one of those shell games. Does technology make our work better? Does it make it easier. I have a theory. A lot of technology we work with (as in personal computers, etc.) gives…
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A week or so ago I finished a complete non-fiction book draft using a password-protected blog as the writing platform. I used my TypePad account, but it could have just as easily been in WordPress. I don’t know the other…
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This was in our local paper, the Eugene Register Guard, “from news service reports:” When Dan Roam wants to make a point in business meetings, he doesn’t use Excel or give PowerPoint presentations. He uses paper. In his recently published…
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So I posted Back to the Mac here in January when I put a gorgeous new 24″ iMac on my main desk top at home, replacing my Windows XP Media machine that got sent upstairs to serve the television (which…
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I posted about the software retail kiosk experiment at the London Oxford Street Borders store last month. I got word via email today that the first store is up and running. Here’s a picture: As I said before, I hope…
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