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Recently, my Facebook profile status started saying Jeff is twittering:… No–I’m not a twit. I’m using Twitter, the trendy service attempting to fill the void of personal, daily updates about a person. If you haven’t heard of it, this Commoncraft video provides an intuitive explanation.   Why have I started Twittering? To understand the medium–I’ve [...]

Title says it all. www.businessofsoftware.org Pretty excited to attend and hear Seth, Joel, and others… I’m also excited to meet Neil Davidson, one of the event co-founders; we’ve e-mailed several times and he clearly has his act together.     If you’re also attending, send me an e-mail…

Recently I’ve been considering a whole mish-mash of options for the next two years–I’ve been offered a wide range of great opportunities: Lean manufacturing in China Teach at a non-profit business school in Kenya Marketing internship Blogging Single-person startups Giant enterprises–Microsoft, Starbucks, etc   Amidst these tantalizing options, it’s been difficult to remember my vision–if [...]

Yesterday’s topic of self-selecting filters prompted me to write about listening to customers… When I’m working on a group project and we get cranky, I show this video. People always ask, "Is this real?" It’s not funny unless it happened. But they always laugh because they want to believe it’s authentic. Do your customers want [...]

Yesterday I questioned why extraordinary undergrads attend R1 Universities. Today it’s about self-selecting filters… They’re ubiquitous. From the multiple lanes of a highway (identical pavement strips headed to the same place) to college majors (this BS contains all the classes of this BA plus an extra year of courses) to clothing colors (same fit, same [...]

Today I examine an extension of Seth’s recent blog post… This guy (http://www.computerforensicsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=2765#2765) writes about R1 universities shafting undergrads. If you’re extraordinary enough that you don’t use resumes, why would you go to a large public university? You don’t need the stamp of approval from the university. Why not go to a smaller, undergrad-oriented university, [...]

Blessed are they who understandMy faltering step and palsied hand. Blessed are they who know that my ears todayMust strain to catch the things they say. Blessed are they who seem to knowThat my eyes are dim and my wits are slow. Blessed are they that look awayWhen coffee spilled at table today. Blessed are [...]

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,And the world makes you King for a day,Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,And see what that guy has to say. For it isn’t your Father, or Mother, or Wife,Who judgement upon you must pass.The feller whose verdict counts most in your [...]

In the garden of splendor, now waiting above, He’s preparing a place for us–filled with His love. He is yearningly waiting as we tell of His plan, To all of the lost ones His redemption for man. Our hearts ever open to feast on His word So graciously taught us by one who has heard. [...]

———————————– NOTE: Mark Warren, of Callingcoach.com, is a longtime family friend of mine. He runs his own private consulting practice on career counseling, and has trained/counseled more than 10,000 people so far. He came and spoke to the CCF community for three hours. These are my notes, pretty much as I typed it during the talk. [...]