The role of a CTO is a topic that inspires many to ask so many questions.  What is the difference between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?  What to look for in a startup CTO?  There are literally hundreds of posts on[…]

Email is useful but can be evil if you let it manage you.  Friends and colleagues often tell me that they are overrun by email, missing important communications and failing to execute.  I’ve even seen people declare email bankruptcy where they’ve lost control and stop[…]

For some time now, technology appears to be trending away from selling products and towards selling products as a service.  Netflix lets you stream all the movies you want, Amazon delivers all the books you want.  Movies and books are migrating from nouns to verbs.[…]

One of the most important product management concepts is getting to market sooner rather than later with the Minimally Valuable Product (MVP) and iterating or pivoting as you gather feedback and learn, especially if you are building new, innovative products.  This is simply[…]

Just some blogging fun here… In the world’s biggest noise factory, the SuperBowl, Marshawn Lynch continues to straight arm the circus performers as he responds to every question with “You know why I’m here”. He defies the NFL’s mandates, wearing his unapproved beast[…]

In the past couple of weeks, several folks have asked me to share my bash profile.  I’m not sure why, maybe better bash profiles are high on everyone’s new year’s resolutions. 🙂 This post should also give my daughter a good chuckle and[…]

David Fisher once wrote “What often characterizes visionaries is their lack of vision. It’s a popular idea that people of genius see farther and clearer than other people, but perhaps the truth is actually the opposite. Visionaries often don’t notice the enormous and[…]

Is it possible to build a personal media network that allows you to collect, organize and stream video, pictures and music to all your devices – TV, phone, computer, game console? There seems to be a couple of key components: A media server[…]

A few years ago, I asked an experienced, technically-savvy friend to look at the product that we were building and objectively let me know his thoughts.  He quickly pointed out that while he was initially impressed with the array of features and power,[…]