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IM is one more toxic spill that's directing our attention to short-term minor issues at the cost of procrastinating on important tasks that require more than a few minutes of uninterrupted thinking. Any time-management consultant will tell you that the basics of meeting your goals are to prioritize them and spend the most time on the most important problems. To make real progress in creative thinking, problem solving, or other knowledge work, we need to keep out interruptions and set our own agenda. IM, in contrast, lets your agenda be controlled by anybody who has your screen name. - Jakob Nielsen (more CuteQuotes) | ||||||||
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| < < | Fun book I've just finished reading: High And Mighty by Keith Bradsher. A very scary book about why SUV's kill more people than cars (both the people inside and the people they crash into) and why the auto makers depend on them to stay in business. It's a very scary book that makes me want to run out and buy an armored Crown Victoria. If you drive an SUV please sell it and buy a car. | |||||||
| It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity surfing." TobyVanitySurf | ||||||||
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| and an informal resume (actually an email that I wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format. | ||||||||
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| < < | At work I'm a consulting software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you. | |||||||
| > > | At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you. | |||||||
| Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team. | ||||||||
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| < < | development, and performance groups. We were a cool little | |||||||
| > > | development, and performance groups (even the IT group for a while). We were a wild little | |||||||
| independent software company until the founder got greedy and sold out to Lucent | ||||||||