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Travel blues

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I know that in a perfect world, all the presence and meeting tools would obviate the need for business travel. However, if you live in the real world, and you are a product manager, you realize that some significant fraction of your time needs to ...

Remember when?

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If you had an early eveneing flight, and got done early, you could go to the airport and have a reasonable chance of flying home earlier on Standby? Yeah, those days are gone. Too full flights, and the mentality of nickel and diming passengers to ...

Huge backlog of blog postings

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So many great topics that are languishing in my head: Marketing: Momentum is a bad thing - because we always have done it doesn't mean that we should continue in perpetuity Marketing/Product Management - Data - Use it to decide whether to continue...

What is worse …

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than driving behind a Hybrid car that is "hyper-miling"*? Following behind an ginormous SUV hyper-miling. Seriously, you bought a 12MPG land yacht, so why do you try to stretch your gas milage to 13MPG by taking 1/2 mile to get to 35 MPH? Seriousl...

Irrational response to prices

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As I was bombarded with yet another sales manager grumbling about prices being too high (we are the market leader, and if we lower our price, all our competitors will match), it dawned on me that prices bring out irrational behavior. A classic exa...

Long week.

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Well, this was a grueling week. Our thrice a year extended management team meetings happened, and I had two (interlinked) updates to present. It all went well, but it was a couple of 10 hour days of meetings, a seriously draining week. Now, I am h...

Science geek cred

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How can you start a science geek thread that will quickly spread to hundreds of replies, and long nostalgic trips down memory lane? Post something about old HP calculators. This morning there was a Slashdot posting about the HP12C financial calcul...

What is it about deadlines?

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I suspect I am not alone in this. How come my best work (analysis, strategy, planning etc) comes when I am under a severe deadline? It isn't polished. I don't have illustrative images. But at crunch time, the threads in the data that are needed to...

My guitar

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Well, this is one of many, but it is my baby. (Image is from Anderson Guitars website) It is a very refined, extremely playable bolt on neck strat style guitar. The electronics are squeaky clean. The action is perfect, and it has the Buzz Feiten t...

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