Talking DevOps with Dave MangotI recently interviewed Dave Mangot, founder of Mangoteque, on an episode of the Private Equity Funcast to discuss the ins and outs of…Jul 5, 2022Jul 5, 2022
How to get your domain blocked by our BarracudaIf you want me to block your email domain, it’s a pretty simple process:Oct 5, 2020Oct 5, 2020
I’m not your partner, podnahNobody tries to sell me anything anymore. Instead, they offer to be my “partner.” Most emails that I get includes some variation of the…Aug 24, 20201Aug 24, 20201
We are all mostly snowflakesI am a big fan of Lewis Black’s comedy. In one of his legendary rants, he asks the audience whether or not milk was healthy for people to…Aug 14, 2020Aug 14, 2020
Enough with the superlativesStarting in the early 1980s, I came up through the technology ranks as a sales engineer. The sales representatives that I worked with and…Jul 30, 20201Jul 30, 20201
Why are we still running software on mainframes?The state of New Jersey recently put out a call for COBOL programmers to help fix problems with their unemployment system. The NJ system…Apr 28, 20201Apr 28, 20201
I am never going to be your customerJim Morrison was right, strange days have found us. March 2020 is the first time in thirty years that I have gone more than two weeks…Apr 15, 20201Apr 15, 20201
When tech-enabled process automation goes awryHertz overcharged me by six hundred dollars, and here is how it happened. I have been traveling for business since 1985, and I log about a…Nov 19, 2019Nov 19, 2019
Silly vendor, segues are for kidsWe closed on a new deal at ParkerGale this week. We’re a small private equity shop, and we buy a company or two a year. In this internet…Jun 11, 2019Jun 11, 2019
My “Maslow” hierarchy of application needsAlmost everybody is familiar with Abraham Maslow’s famous paper outlining the various levels of human motivations. Maslow’s hierarchy is…Mar 7, 2016Mar 7, 2016
