Fluxing...

I found this terribly moving, despite the fact that the idea of work/life balance is somewhat clichéd. (via @ashedryden)

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This time last year, my wife and I were planning her escape.

We worked together at the same company, and she had a promising executive…

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About five years ago, I flushed with anger at my dad. He knew my job was on the bubble, and he callously remarked that maybe it was because…

Pop quiz: what’s your vision for your current job or project? For your career? For your life?

Don’t know? Many of us don’t. And that’s a shame.

You can knock the Color guys for…

Sometimes Seth Godin’s posts are a little too short and sweet.

His argument is that a decision without tradeoffs is not a decision. I assume the point was that without…

“Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.” -Uesugi Kenshin, 16th century

At lunch with…

November 10th, 2009 marked a pretty dramatic turning point in my career. The startup I worked for was in a tailspin, and a friend who’d escaped invited me to visit his new…

Today, technology lost another titan: Dennis Ritchie, the guy who basically invented the bricks that form every bit of our digital lives. It’s arguable (and even likely) that…

Want to be excellent? I’m not saying I’m some kind of paragon of excellence, but every once in a while, I do get ahold of it. And I’ve noticed there’s a pattern that must be met before…

From the “Cringe-inducing historical artifacts” file.

This was the hard-selling long form letter I’d planned to use to launch my consulting business as my ticket out of a dead-end PC…