Book Time

Category: Technology

  • Busy Monster

    Busy Monster

    When your calendar looks like Tetris.

    But seriously, how are you guys doing at managing your busy monkey?

  • Measure What Matters

    Measure What Matters

    There’s a trope that continues to track as sensical.

    “Measure what matters.”

    I was talking to someone the other day about a feature in a product and asked about reporting on it. There wasn’t any reporting against

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  • First Principles

    First Principles

    Employee asking me about their internet being out for a chunk of Monday. Worried they’re going to get docked pay.

    First question I had: Aren’t you salaried?
    Them: Yes.
    Me: I don’t know why that matters then.
    Them: Ok that’s cool.

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  • Best Future Skill

    Best Future Skill

    The biggest predictor of success in the future of every organization will be delegation. With the advent of agents, even if your over or under on if agents with action will be delivered within 2 years, the ability for every entry level employee 10x their work by delegating tasks to agents is a huge benefit driver.

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  • Winning With Projects

    Winning With Projects

    don’t like to think about the amount of money i’ve lost on projects. Let me go back, it’s not exactly true. I haven’t lost money so much as eroded margin.

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  • Why I Don’t Like Talking Hourly Rates

    Why I Don’t Like Talking Hourly Rates

    Let’s talk about an hourly rate on work and why I don’t like to talk about it. 🙂

    Well, the issue is not that I don’t like to talk about it. The issue is that it’s a red flag for a client’s posture towards the value of services.

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  • Projects are Really a Math Game

    Projects are Really a Math Game

    Every business and function has a few levers that make a difference on the business. In terms of make the operations run better, everything else that doesn’t lead to the moving of these is a distraction. Let’s talk about this in the context of Project based work. Time is a huge lever.

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  • Markets Both Benefit and Constrain

    Markets Both Benefit and Constrain

    Years ago I was in a conversation with someone who was asking some curious, albeit weighted questions around the subject of using the Office365 product suite over GSuite. It was a decision made in this organization prior to my coming on-board, but honestly I felt it was a good decision and

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  • Simple Explanations Show Understanding

    Simple Explanations Show Understanding

    Something I’ve noticed in some conversations is when a person tells me something is complex and difficult to explain it has become a red flag for me. I try to go by the napkin rule. If I can’t draw it out on a diner napkin over lunch with someone then it’s possible I don’t really understand the first principles of the subject.

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  • Best Time to Build a Business is Now

    Best Time to Build a Business is Now

    Had a conversation with a friend the other day who works for a municipality. There is a software that they use, basically every county uses it. There’s one vendor for everyone. It’s a monopoly. Support is bad (days for the initial response), product is bad (still requiring windows 10 and haven’t began testing for deployment in windows 11), and prices are high (no market competition = high prices). The issue is anytime a new company begins to disrupt they buy them.

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