Category Archives: Business
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Inspirational speech given by Steve Jobs at a Stanford University commencement ceremony combined with archived photos.
Time Management via The Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique helps you focus on a single task 25 minutes at a time. In today’s world with the constant onslaught of information something simple like The Pomodoro Technique can help you ignore distractions and focus on getting things … Continue reading
Business of Happiness
I just finished reading The Business of Happiness by Ted Leonsis. I recommend it! Check out the website to get some background on the author and book. To summarize, Ted grew up in Brooklyn the son of immigrant parents. Through … Continue reading
Staying Human: Google is great, until it isn’t
We blog about Google a lot and up until now it’s all been positive. We’ve run across a problem we can’t fix and it revolves around the way Google handles their products. Google is successful because so much of what … Continue reading
The cure for software upgrades?
A software upgrade can be a major disruption to a business. We’ve listed the revisions to Microsoft’s core businesss products going back to 1995. Windows Servers Office Exchange (email) SQL (database) Windows 95 Windows NT (1993) Office 95 Exchange 5.5 SQL … Continue reading
Multitasking is a myth
Courtesy of @rands on Twitter: In a previous blog post we summed up multitasking as: Multitasking is the ability to shift between tasks very quickly. Also known as timeslicing, these transitions happen so quickly it appears like multitasking. However, each time … Continue reading
The Internet has a Time Machine
The Wayback Machine at www.archive.org has been keeping a record of web sites on the Internet for years. Go there and check out your favorite site. It can be quite interesting to view a site as it evolved over time. … Continue reading
Will’s Wisdom
Saw this video over on www.smbitpros.com It’s worth reposting. Will Smith has a great attitude on life.
Rain in San Diego
It’s raining here in San Diego. A rare and welcome site.
Virtual Assistants: Adventures in Delegation
We all have limited time in each day. Looking to increase my productivity and free myself from mundane tasks I decided to try a Virtual Assistant service called AskSunday. With AskSunday you can delegate tasks like ordering food, flower delivery, … Continue reading