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I hear more and more stories these days about folks being burnt by the (bad) privacy default settings on Facebook. As more and more older folks join Facebook, I’m concerned that more and more of the people I care about are going to have embarassing Facebook mishaps– or worse, lose jobs or relationships due [...]
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Curious about how to start to build a professional presence online? Want your company to pop to the top of relevant web searches? Here are some tips.
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I recently got asked for book recs for new project managers, and I had some trouble coming up with any. It’s a shame, really– most of the books on management I’ve read really haven’t impressed me. And books on project management often are focused on PMP certification, not real-world wrangling of technical people and projects.
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The number that is floating around my universe right now is 10,000– I hear this is the number of hours it takes to become good at something. I’ve been thinking about that number a lot over the last few weeks.
If you’re doing something as your full-time job, it will take you about 5 years to [...]
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So, last night Ted and I were watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD, and I became infuriated by the character of Lee Adama. “He is a crappy leader!” I shouted. “If he were a project manager, his projects would fail!” From there I segued into a more extended rant about real-life political leaders who are promoted above their level of competency based on their family history, and how badly that tends to work out.
This morning, I’m still thinking of Lee Adama’s complete lack of leadership skills. I’ve known project managers like Lee– heck, I’ve been a project manager like Lee. Before I started figuring out what my role is as a project leader, I escalated the level of drama on the projects I was involved with.
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By way of my friend Lori’s baby shower, I have discovered the best working album in the history of time. I’m listening to it now– glockenspiel covers of Cure songs. I was dubious when I heard about this album, but one listen and I was hooked.
In a way this reminds me of mash-ups, and [...]
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Okay, so up until recently I was driving an hour each way to work in San Jose every day. This left me less time for blogging, but more time for audiobooks. I revisited some pleasures of my youth; specifically, I listened to three of the Lloyd Alexander’s novels about Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper. And I was delighted [...]
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