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Conference is meh, but its great spending time with my brother Jordan on his birthday!!!

That’s him in the black hat.

Just as I long suspected and wrote about in previous posts, antivirus companies have been creating their own malware.  They have a huge financial incentive to create malware that their software can resolve as this will lead to more sales. I always thought the owners would be smarter though and would pay cash under the table secretly to outside programming teams, not their own regular employees.

I have been listening to Great Courses course on biology each morning when I work out. The recent lectures have been on evolution and genetic engineering…

So last night I had a dream that I was a biologist and engineered a mega wasp that was intelligent as humans and had a sting that killed and was resistant to cold, heat, insecticide and could photosynthesise.… read more “Mega Wasps”

Great discussion on whether or not it is necessary to have a cofounder over on Hacker News today. It inspired me to share my story of why I think having a founder would have sunk my business long ago.

I have self financed and built my business, CoalitionTechnologies.com, to a team of 52 full time employees over the last six years.… read more “A Cofounder Would Have Sunk My Business”

I’ve been working 60-70 hours a week, working out hard every day and in my spare hour in the evenings reading business books. I am tired and my patience feels thin. I need to re-energize myself.

 

I have spent quite a bit of time and effort lately developing tools for Coalition. The trade off for this is that I have not been able to spend as much time directly with my teams and clients. I need to make an effort to spend more time there as I feel I may be getting diminishing returns on my tool suite and a lot of good would come from more face time with my team.

I am in love with the Laravel framework! It greatly simplifies PHP development and deployment. I have built two custom web applications on it so far, one for training and one for recruiting.