Archive for the ‘General’ Category

What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Could Not Fail?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

We've all heard this question before. Heck, it's even printed on magnets. When your quote gets to magnets, you must have a good one. There are a million silly answers to this question -- "Go rob a bank! Duh! You'd be rich!" Right, right. ...

Marc Andreessen & Charlie Rose

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

While in school at the University of Illinois from 1995-2000, I spent some time working at NCSA. This was just a few short years after Marc Andreessen had worked there, but even by then, the stories about the development of Mosaic were starting to become legend. His work ...

Process Can Never Replace Passion

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Without fail, if you work at any small software company long enough, you will one day end up in a meeting where someone is introducing new ideas or new tools to "keep Engineering on track." "It seems like we're slipping deadlines a lot lately.  With this tool, we'll be better able ...