Web Development 2.0. By marc I gave a rushed and somewhat incoherent talk at the Y Combinator Winter Founder's Program last night (and let me say again — holy cow, they have such great taste in people — the companies they're funding are filled with people I'd love to work with). In it, I reprised… Continue reading Web Development 2.0

Trust People and They'll Surprise You. Amazing things happen when you give people a bit of trust and authority to do things according to their own judgment. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon a Fast Company article called Engines of Democracy. It describes a revolutionary jet engine plant… Continue reading Trust People and They'll Surprise You

Webs of small offices.  I was chatting with someone today and they said this…. Here's another interesting factoid. My small business clients are turning into webs of small offices. I'm just coming off budget meetings with all of them and fully 80% are planning to expand remote workers and remote offices in the coming 2… Continue reading Webs of small offices

Washington Post: Why do we carry so much around?. Burdens of the Modern Beast Washington Post on the growing amount of crap people carry around (present company very much included). The increased quantity of carry-on items for our flight through life, he says, reflects “the tendency of our society to dispense with sources of shared… Continue reading Washington Post: Why do we carry so much around?

GodZilla: The DoD Eats the Federal Budget This speaks volumes: Washington Post In the White House budget for the fiscal year ending in October 2007, Pentagon funding would increase by nearly 7 percent and, for the first time in Bush's presidency, claim more than half the government's expenditure on discretionary programs, those that get set… Continue reading GodZilla: The DoD Eats the Federal Budget

Lind on Long Wars DNI. Long wars are usually strategic disasters for winners as well as losers, because they leave all parties exhausted. If they work to anyone’s advantage, it tends to be the weaker party’s, because its alternative is rapid defeat. The Rumsfeld Pentagon certainly does not see the United States as the weaker… Continue reading Lind on Long Wars

Ouch. $650 a call?. Ouch. Tech support for Novell's servers just went from $300 a call to $650 per call  [E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva”]

Cuts lead to delays for 10 road projects. Ten local road and bridge projects, including portions of a long-awaited plan to widen Route 128 between Randolph and Wellesley and the reconfiguration of the Walnut Street interchange on Route 1 in Saugus, would be postponed because of a recently discovered shortfall in federal transportation funding, according… Continue reading Cuts lead to delays for 10 road projects

Network Neutrality. Network neutrality is in the news just about everywhere you look.  The Senate Committee hearing took place today: here's all the testimony.  [LibrarianInBlack]

GTD 2006.27: A 40 hour week. I know this is going to rub a lot of you the wrong way, but I come to the considered conclusion that a 40 hour work week, with explicit, limited, bouts of longer hours is more productive overall than the typical 60-70 hour work week. Last year, I averaged… Continue reading GTD 2006.27: A 40 hour week