Find My iPhone

Find My iPhone

¡Atopa a meu iphone!  Find my iPhone . . . in Galician.  Yes, I recently spent a very enjoyable ten days in Galicia, visiting Santiago de Compostela, Cambados, O Grove, Pontevedra and other memorable locations.  My iPhone and Kindle liked it so much they decided to go...
The World Is Calling.  Don’t Answer.

The World Is Calling. Don’t Answer.

The problem with the World Wide Web is the “world” part.  This week, over my protests, one of my startup, ecommerce clients, a health and beauty product purveyor, is attempting to accommodate a large order from an unknown customer in Indonesia.  It will not end well....
Change Is the Only Constant

Change Is the Only Constant

I’ve never read the original writings of Heraclitus, nor do I plan on doing so.  Nonetheless, I agree with his 2,500 year old statement that change is the only constant in life.  Had the venerable, Greek philosopher been around today, he might add that change is...
Cherry Picking

Cherry Picking

The bad news?  The 2018 cherry harvest here in Massachusetts is nearing its conclusion.  The good news?  If you work for a startup it’s always cherry picking time! I refer to Confirmation Bias, the tendency to look for, favor, interpret, and utilize information in a...
Corporations Are People Too

Corporations Are People Too

Corporations are people, too.  Not in the sense that the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United, when it allowed corporations the free speech rights accorded to citizens.  No, I am referring to business obituaries.  Dead companies, like dead people, enjoy the same...
Do Business Ethics Still Matter?

Do Business Ethics Still Matter?

Do business ethics still matter?   I never thought I would be asking such a, seemingly heretical, question.  The thought of businesses operating without a system of moral and ethical beliefs to guide them is, well, it’s frightening.  Chaos would seem to be the logical...
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