Warning: The following post may come off as a bit cynical, but I feel like the advice is sound, so I’m going to say it. I’ve spent a lot of time lately talking to one of my friends about a new business he’s starting up in partnership with another company. He’s basically offering consulting services [...]
I just read a story in this month’s Utah Valley BusinessQ entitled “When All Else Fails.” It was a great article about entrepreneurship and persistence, and it made me think a lot about the value behind failure. After mulling it over a bit, here are a few of the things that I came up with [...]
In my experience, software engineers tend to be a relatively insular group who don’t give respect easily. Also, it seems to be a pattern that engineers hire the best engineers. So how can you approach top-flight programmers with a pitch if you don’t have a strong tech or programming background? Josh Coates, who has some [...]
Jurassic Park is one of my favorite books, partially because it still seems so relevant, even though it’s almost 20 years old. While I used to be more interested in the gory action, the philosophies behind the book have become far more intriguing to me as I’ve gotten older. In what is probably my favorite [...]
