Month: October 2012

  • Hiring a Technical Person

    I ran into a post about software developer interviews on The Daily WTF. It was full of software developers complaining about business people and how they are stupid. I’ve interviewed countless people and the game works the same except when it comes to software developers. If a non-tech person shows up for an interview they do…

  • Quote of the Day: Marketing Barking

    Your marketing should do the barking and your product do the talking. – Karl Unless you are a multi-level marketing company of course. Click to read more about product value vs marketing hype.

  • Value vs Hype Explained

    Marketing is considered important by most people. If you are an entrepreneur chances are that you spend a serious chunk of time on it. But can really great marketing fill the gaps of a lackluster product? It depends on if you are selling value or if you are selling hype. Selling Value If you have…

  • Thoughts on Relativity

    Thoughts on Relativity

    Protons can sporadically appear and disappear. They are subatomic and infinitely small and of almost no mass. The universe could also have been created in a similar fashion, and will disappear in a similar fashion. But becausue of its mass, there is more inertia and time distorts and gets slower. For a proton to instantaneously…

  • A Sunset on Mars

    A Sunset on Mars

    Watch and behold, a sunset on Mars. At first it struck me as “another” interplanetary video, but come to think about it, it is pretty amazing. Out there, one year away from our own planet a little robot landed and shot HD video — and it all looks like Arizona. It’s crazy how a place…