Software, Business, and Life
Aug 19 2010
Over the last year or so, I’ve spent perhaps 50 hours rethinking what kind of business Oasis Digital should be. I’ve studied business models. I’ve made spreadsheets. I’ve looked around that numerous other consulting firms. The results of all that… are slowly emerging. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, though, I noticed something very interesting: the firms [...]
Aug 19 2010
Recently I analyzed the relative payoff from different types of work I’ve done in my career to date. Some of the work has paid off reasonably well. But one particular bit of it stands out as a counter-example to common wisdom:
Between 1997 and 2000, I spent countless hours on the BDE Alternatives Guide, a section [...]
May 27 2010
This is yet another story that I’ve told dozens of time to individual and groups, and now finally written down. Here is a short video talk:
As usual, the vimeo page offers it for HTML5, non-Flash platforms like the iPad.
Back in 2004 I co-founded Mobile Workforce Management, a vertical market SaaS firm. For the first 6+ [...]
May 25 2010
Round 1, 2007
Back in 2007 I read a few articles about the merits of stand-up desks, in regards to health and productivity. According to the New York Times and other sources, standing desks have been not quite common, but neither terribly uncommon, for many years. Sitting all the time is apparently quite unhealthy. Famously, Donald [...]
May 24 2010
I’m not a big social media guy. I’m certaintly not a social media consultant, nor a maven. I never used MySpace at all, and I was not among the first to use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. But I do find all of those useful to keep in touch with a bunch of people using all [...]
Apr 06 2010
Some pundits have declared the iPad a “toy”, or suited only for content consumption. I disagreed with the latter a few days ago, and I think it will have some very interesting business uses. If I come up with a sufficiently novel one, Oasis Digital might implement it.
But sadly I must mostly agree, for at [...]
