Great software is a function of how “able” it is across a range of areas, from usable, to scalable to supportable and even sellable. I think a lot of these areas get missed by product managers and developers. Having been on the vendor and customer side of software, I’m developing these categories into a rubric …
I’m underwhelmed with the amount of mailings I get, and pop-ups every time I log into a vendor’s site, encouraging me to use paperless billing. But they don’t actually solve my paperless billing problems. The universally offer me terms like: We’ll tell you when it’s ready You log into our site and can download it, …
Paperless Billing – How to not solve my problem, only yours Read More »
When should you use the BCC feature of an email program? I only permit three uses for myself: Never; it’s bad form. I mentioned that in my last post. When I am CC’ing a task tracking application like Asana (which I love). When I want to spare some of the recipients any future follow-up …
I recently asked one of our college interns at work why she CC’d a particular person on an email. “I don’t know what CC means,” she said. Wow. So I explained it, in pretty rich detail. Then I asked what she thought “BCC” meant. “Before Carbon Copy?” she replied. So I explained BCC, and that …
I invested a few minutes this morning configuring a timer for a high-intensity circuit training workout that I do. It’s less than 9 minutes long and can be done anywhere, and you feel great all day. In fact, there is almost never a reason to not do this workout before you shower in the morning. …
Great app and article for a quick 9-minute workout Read More »
This image really struck me tonight: In case you can’t tell what it is, here it is a little larger (thank you Retina display Macbook Pro): And if you aren’t sure where it is from, here’s a clue: And if that isn’t obvious (it wouldn’t be to most people), here …
As a follow-up to my earlier e-mail post, what I’d like to do is shift the onus of e-mail prioritization from the receiver to the sender. Not unlike an administrative assistant who receives your phone calls and asks the purpose of any proposed meeting request. So here’s how I’d build my Inbox assistant: When you send …
How to manage email – Part 3 of 3 – My Inbox Assistant Read More »
This is a series of posts about the challenges around email and thoughts around a true Inbox filter that shifts the onus from the receiver to the sender. If your job is busy work, or meetings, or not actually producing anything but instead just creating the illusion of work, then you can ignore the rest …
How to manage email – Part 2 of 3 – My Work Expectations Read More »
The crime of the future will involve the easy, inconspicuous theft of electricity, and I suggest that the utility infrastructure needs to be prepared for any significant battery breakthrough by either offering significantly lower prices for the generation of electricity, or the on-location (at the outlet) metering of electron flow. Background: Flying from PHX to …
The free flow of electrons will create the crime of the future Read More »
“After the tone, state your name, followed by pound or hash sign.” I’ve said the same name to this prompt over a hundred times. Every time I’ve said my name (which hasn’t changed), from the same cell phone number. And guess what? My voice print is pretty identically too. It’s better than a pin code. …
Conference Calling Services need to be reinvented Read More »
