Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsOn Personal ProductivityThroughout my training camp I’ve been adhering, more or less, to this schedule:Jan 23, 2017Jan 23, 2017
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsSay Hello to FreeVerseIf you’ve been following this blog, you know that I recently finished up ten days of rapid market research where I looked at potential…Jan 19, 2017Jan 19, 2017
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsThoughts on MIT 6.006So I just completed MIT 6.006, or, as I’ve come to call it, Getting to Know the CLRS Algorithms book. By that scheme, 6.046 should be…Jan 11, 2017Jan 11, 2017
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: FandomThere was a time when being too passionate about a segment of popular culture relegated you to a painful existence of derision. You were…Jan 3, 2017Jan 3, 2017
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: FilmIn college, one of my favorite pastimes during the winter months in Rochester, NY was following the Oscar race. I would read various blogs…Jan 2, 2017Jan 2, 2017
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: PublishingIn addition to the non-fiction business and technology writing I do here, I also write fiction. My favorite genres to write are historical…Dec 30, 2016Dec 30, 2016
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: HospitalityHospitality and Real Estate tend to overlap quite a bit, since both of them really boil down to geography and square footage. However, the…Dec 29, 2016Dec 29, 2016
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: SportsSports, and the multi-channel TV business models that subsidize it, may have peaked as an industry. Cable companies are losing subscribers…Dec 28, 2016Dec 28, 2016
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: PoliticsIn 2011, I co-founded a startup called GeoGeist with a buddy. We had two premises:Dec 27, 2016Dec 27, 2016
Patrick DobsoninDown Pat ProductionsIndustry Hack: Real EstateOf all the businesses I’ve helped start (somewhere between five and fifteen, depending on how you count), none has been more successful…Dec 23, 2016Dec 23, 2016