Conference is meh, but its great spending time with my brother Jordan on his birthday!!!
Save The Client Calls
One of the worst parts of running an agency is when you hear that a client wants to cancel. At that point, you need to call the client to find out why. Sometimes they don’t understand the results they’ve gotten, sometimes they have legitimate concerns, sometimes they have financial issues. But it always is one of the most stressful and least fun parts of running an agency.… read more “Save The Client Calls”
Laurels Grandpa’s 90th Birthday
That’s him in the black hat.
Antivirus Companies Create Viruses
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.
Mega Wasps
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”
A Cofounder Would Have Sunk My Business
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”
Tired
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.
Hershey Felder Play at the Geffen Playhouse with Laurel
Weekend
I spent 14 hours this weekend debugging an application built by someone else. I couldn’t even get it properly installed! Super frustrating, but I did learn a decent amount of system administration related stuff. Hopefully my pain will help me in the future.
Tools vs Teams
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.