It dawned on me today that I have been preparing myself for the Boulder.me experience for over a year now: ever since I was introduced to Paul Graham’s essays. I decided to re-read How to Be Silicon Valley, which was written a couple years ago. Toward the beginning of the essay, Paul Graham states: “What …
I arrived back home from the Boulder.me event Tuesday night, and I am very glad I was able to be a part of that experience. Everyone there referred to it as the “Speed Dating” version of interviewing. On Monday I interviewed with 14 different companies in seven hours (30 minutes per company). It was a …
Back in the mid-nineties, having been introduced to Apple Newtons, Palm Pilots and Wacom’s new tablet-is-the-screen technology (I don’t remember the official name), I started dreaming. It had been several years before this that a conversation about computers with my dad ended with his comment “I’ll use a computer when it starts speaking my language!” …
While the last couple months have been quite eventful, I haven’t felt at liberty to share some of it publicly for several, mostly boring reasons. Today I decided to lift the Cone of Silence a bit. I have had some incredible opportunities to meet with some great, like-minded developers in the Midwest and to coach …
A new friend of mine, Cheesy (it’s a long story), drug me out to the Northern Ohio Software Quality Assurance Association (NOSQAA) monthly meet-up last night for several reasons, the first of which was to drink some beer. So we headed over to The Boneyard and started… er, drinking in the atmosphere. Sorry… I had …