By chris on March 5, 2010
I have been a product manager long enough that I’ve begun to frame much of my world view in prodman terms – just this past weekend I spent an afternoon cruising the aisles of a supermarket, searching for foodstuffs and thinking “and this is exactly why folksonomies trump hierarchical taxonomies!” (if this sounds interesting, check [...]
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By chris on January 25, 2010
The NY Times recently interviewed Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Most of the published conversation focuses on building a good corporate culture.
When asked for his best interview question, Tony offered this:
What would you say is the biggest misperception that people have of you?
Really good one. I usually ask “if I called someone who reported to [...]
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By chris on December 11, 2009
For anyone who wasn’t on my big ole email, here’s some news from the home front:
As some of you may know, I’ve recently joined OpenSky, a startup that’s changing the way people shop online. I wanted to share with you what we’re creating and ask you to get involved (yes, there’s a payout at [...]
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By chris on August 12, 2009
Reminders from Tim Ferriss for being productive instead of being busy
Via BNet. I love Tim. Seriously.
Elimination, not organization, is key
Single task – focus on start-to-finish completion of a few critical tasks
Pareto principle (80/20) – you’ll get 80% of results from best 20% actions
Divorce effort from results – performance instead of presence – focus on results [...]
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By chris on July 7, 2009
By “cool” I mean “old.” But still, if you know anyone who needs any of this stuff, hook a brother up.
Nonprofit? Deductable donations? Email me and we’ll talk free.
Buy in bulk and get a discount!
Hacker’s PC, peripherals, and software – $170 or free
Charities, please contact me – I’d rather donate this computer than sell it, [...]
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By chris on April 1, 2009
When I earned my first paycheck from a real post-collegiate job, I headed out onto the town to Buy Stuff. I was intoxicated. I was finally self-sufficient and eager to celebrate my new found spending power. The first order of business: cast aside a lifetime of sartorial decisions guided by back to school sales, the [...]
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By chris on February 12, 2009
Interesting statement from an article by Emily Yoffe on Slate (the rest of the piece is a mini-memoir on the Facebook experience and doesn’t add much meat):
Brenda Bradley, a Cambridge University zoologist doing research on primate evolution [...] explained a theory about what drove the evolution of human intelligence: It was the need to monitor [...]
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By chris on January 20, 2009
Well, I’m mostly done with the “migration” part of this little exercise. I used some great scripts found online (will update with links later) that got my content and links over but lost some critical metadata including categories, timestamps, and published/unpublished settings. This led to the shocking dicovery that a full 40% of my blog [...]
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By chris on November 26, 2008
Still pimpin’ sites, this time a good one: Rachel’s Mountain Reviews is a great place to find member-created reviews of ski and snowboarding runs across the US.
Her profile page should give you a better idea of what the site is all about. You can join and create your own profile using the “Sign Up” links in the upper right on every page on the site.
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By chris on November 21, 2008
Yes, I love that widgety goodness, so I’ve set up Widget Death Match to create a home for the best widgets on the web. Currently running KickApps on the back end, I’m working on augmenting it with Pligg (Drupal-based Digg clone) so it’s easy for people to share and vote on widgets around the web.
Update: First off, it turns out that despite it’s popularity, Pligg is a POS. It’s not even based on Drupal! For that, you need Drigg, which is the bastard child of Pligg’s former dev talent. It was all too much, so I switched WDM to use Wordpress; it’s now waiting for a skin job.
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