Monthly Archives: July 2008

The 3-Hour Work Day

I just got finished with The 4-Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss.  The basic premise of the book is to cut the interruptions out of you day-to-day job (allowing you to work less), work from home (allowing you to work … Continue reading

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Free Trial vs. Risk Free

When I was at eHarmony a lot of talk was made around Free Trial vs. Risk Free offers.  A Free Trial is when the user is allowed to use the site for free for a limited period of time.  After … Continue reading

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Cost-To-Serve

Having an accurate cost-to-serve (CTS) metric is a critical part of running a website.  This should be used as the overall mesure of how efficiently customers can be served.  The technology team should have goals to continually lower that CTS … Continue reading

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Evaluating Candidates

I seem to have spent much of my career interviewing candidates for engineering positions.  Interviewing is an art that I have tried to make as objective as possible.  I grade each candidate in the following five areas (these are in … Continue reading

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Corporate Vision vs. Mission

Today we had an executive offsite where, among other things, we reworked our company vision and mission.  We had a good discussion on the difference between the two and after a fierce discussion were left with a very clear vision … Continue reading

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

I just finished reading Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson. This is another great book I will add to my management toolkit. The book is a case study of a multi-year project … Continue reading

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ƃuıʇıɔxǝ ʎllɐǝɹ sı sıɥʇ

˙looɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd sʇı ʎɐʍ ɹǝɥʇıǝ  ¿sɹǝʇlıɟ ɯɐds ʇɹǝʌqns oʇ pǝsn ǝq uɐɔ ʇɐɥʇ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sıɥʇ sı  ˙ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ dılɟ noʎ ʇǝl llıʍ ʇɐɥʇ ʎɐpoʇ ǝʇıs sıɥʇ ssoɹɔɐ ǝɯɐɔ ı Translation for my slow peeps: I came across this site today … Continue reading

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Biz360

After nearly 5 years at eHarmony.com, I finally decided to move on and up. As of June 1st, I am in the Bay Area working at Biz360, a market research company. The task of having to spider much of the … Continue reading

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iPhone: Bleeding Edge

Yes I woke up early on Friday and had a few minutes to kill before I went to work.  So what did I decide to do, update my iPhone to the new 2.0 firmware.  Me and the millions of other … Continue reading

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SCRUM Training

I would like to thank Mark Pushinsky at Innovel for the SCRUM training he provided at Biz360.  From their site: Innovel helps large scale enterprises develop sustained competitive advantage. Our goal is to give your people and organization the tools … Continue reading

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