This 9to5Mac.com article is a fascinating illustration of a powerful business maxim. Businesses should build for themselves whatever makes them special and competitive, and buy or rent everything else. This isn’t meant as an Apple dig, and if you’re an Apple hater, please just settle down. I can give you examples from nearly any company.
This is a request: treat this as an “Ask Me Anything.” I’d like questions from you. Ideally, ones you think I can answer, but given a running start I’m sure I can come up with some answer <grin> to whatever you might ask.
Back in… jeez, 2015, which seems like forever ago, I started DSC Camp. At the time, Desired State Configuration was brand-new, and there were very few people actually working with it int he ran world. I wanted to get as many of those folks in a room as possible (it was about 15) for a weekend, …
I’ve begun the long journey toward the 2nd Edition of Be the Master, slated for an early 2019 release. Yeah… a long journey, given that it’s a spare-time project. For those of you who obtained the book on Leanpub, you’ll begin seeing the 2nd edition in draft form Real Soon Now, with periodic updates throughout 2018. The original …
This is an excerpt from my new book, Be the Master. In the Part of the book this excerpt is taken from, I cover some of the often-unseen fundamentals of the business world. The idea is that being successful in life and your career is much harder if you don’t really understand the rules that drive so much …
This is an excerpt from my new book, Be the Master, available now at Leanpub. There’s a perception that you’re not “good enough” to teach until you know everything. Indeed, as I’ll point out later, adult education often starts with the premise that instructors must establish their superior knowledge in order to maintain authority over the class. …
In December 2016, I made a resolution to blog more. Blogging – well, writing in general – is a great outlet for me. My thoughts become more organized when I put fingers to keyboard, and it feels great to get some of my experiences down in a way that can help someone else maybe change …
I was having a vigorous debate about the Electoral College with a friend the other evening, and thought I’d share. Oddly, although I’ve kind of knee-jerk been against the E.C. for a long time, I found myself arguing for it.
…killing someone? It’s an interesting discussion I got into with a couple of friends the other day. We’d gotten to speaking about laws, and we’d kind of worked through what we felt were a couple of “types” of law.
For anyone outside the US who has assiduously avoided US media and news stories, the big national conversation right now is still health insurance. For anyone in the US, of course, it is physically impossible to avoid the fact that a bunch of ideologue lawyers and politicians are deciding how we will pay for essential …
