February 2006
4 posts
How to get a great job
In my line of work, I have this conversation quite a bit. After I left school, having run a company throughout college, I decided to head to Silicon Valley without much of a clue what I would find. In fact, I’d never even fathomed living in California. I’m from Montana. So, in my humble and short existence here in the “Valley”. Here’s my 7 step guide to getting a...
January 2006
5 posts
Concordance and Text Stats
Two new things to me over at Amazon. Here I was innocently searching out a few good reads for my Amazon shopping cart, and I stumble upon a new and interesting use for tags: concordance. Wow! What an interesting way to look at the content of a book.
Check it out.
Written from Squaw Valley USA - Lake Tahoe, California
Idea of the Day
Provide a service to writers, but more specifically bloggers, who want to evaluate their writing. This service would provide bloggers feedback on their blogs, and allow them to continue their education on evolving their voice and writing style.
Written from Cupertino, California
Be an Intrapreneur.
Guy Kawasaki just launched a new blog a couple of weeks ago. He’s one of the coolest guys around, and one of the best authors as well. He talks a lot about entrepreneurship, vc, and other cool projects he has been a part of. But, all around, he has some great advice based on a plethora of experience.
In one of his recent posts, he talked about the top ten lies of venture capitalists, then...
Music Marketing 101
I’ve been running into an interesting conversation lately regarding marketing of independent artist’s music. This mostly comes from my love for local music, and a bunch of really random serendipitous meetings I’ve had recently. One on the plane last night with a sound engineer and classical guitarist who loves his music, but never really thought about how he could get it to the...
Windows flaw: are you protected?
I certainly am. I use an Apple Powerbook G4. So should you.
“The most dangerous Windows virus EVER.” says NBC 11 News San Francisco
(Sorry, I just had to do it. This time.)