It’s like male geeks don’t know how to deal with real live women, so they just asume it’s a user interface problem. Not their fault. They’ll just wait for the next version to come out – something more “user friendly.” Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Ethan says Type-A personalities have a whole subset of diseases that they, and only they, share, and the transmission vector for these diseases is the DOOR CLOSE button on elevators that only get pushed by impatient, Type-A people. Ethan pushes these buttons with his elbow, now. I’m starting to worry about all of us. Microserfs, [...]
I don’t know why my hands rip so much. But they do, and badly. Experimenting with new methods of hand maintenance, but it’s a slow process of trial and error.
I was talking to an agent friend the other day, and she was asking me about her site analytics, wanting to better understand bounce rate and page views and whatnot. Like many in the industry that consider themselves tech-savvy, she has a Google Analytics account for her business site and faithfully checks those numbers – [...]
I’m convinced the answer is always in the data. At least, as far as generating business is concerned. There’s a whole treasure of answers, just sitting there waiting – you just have to have the analysis cycles in place to take advantage of it. Do you know what people are searching for most often in [...]
I’m a little OCD. I’m a little exacting, and precise. I blame it on my background. I’ve got an engineering degree where I was taught to define and measure systems. To improve performance, reduce risk, to evaluate alternatives and measure results. I spent a quarter century in a ballet studio, perfecting the nuances of both [...]
I keep hearing how mobile is the next big thing. And I don’t disagree. More and more, I do everything I want and/or need from my Blackberry. So when I hear consistent chatter about an ever increasing wave of mobile users, it makes me think: How do I, as a business, prepare for and capitalize [...]
