[I found this drafted from ‘16, seemed worth releasing. 2.0.2.0] I saw a recent post about “changing thing by 2%”, and although my first impression was ‘that’s pretty arbitrary’, I have to admit it’s a number I’ve thought a little bit about. Mostly in terms of a respectable margin of…

If you take nothing else from this: There is talent coming out of RDU (UNC, Duke, NC State) that would like nothing more than to move to ILM and build a company. SFO happens to be bringing you this playbook and a better chance of finding and attracting them, as…

Salesforce expanded the ‘National Park, Natural Beauty’ theme even further this year at its developer conference TrailheaDX. At first take, I can hear the skeptics: ‘technology and nature are opposites, who is Salesforce kidding by blanketing its platforms, cloud products, apps, and developers with a ‘feel good’ gimmick suggesting otherwise?’…

Upload VR did not disappoint. In some ways it felt like what I picture the first dot.com to have been like: one part young-and-talented, one part tech-junkie, and one part rebel-yell. The artistic aspect of The Collective was the most notable, and part of that was certainly to be expected…

Dear Marc.B, Happy Discovery Day. I would like to thank you for Dreamforce yet again, it gives me hope. [It might be overwhelming at times, but hope nonetheless.] You are fighting the good fight. I can certainly see it, as can many, but there is such an enormous wave of…

If Trump wins, I’m out. You can try and prepare, you can correlate and plan, you can even optimize the forecast; but enough people/startups will want to get the f@ck out of a nation capable of electing him, that your coffers will grow. To be honest, I’ve heard it’s a…

It’s been a little longer than 7 hours and 15 days, it’s been 6 years since that first Disrupt in New York, feels far longer, like a lifetime ago for me. A lot has happened in the world … World-shattering earthquakes in Haiti and Japan. Greece defaults. BP spills. Arab…

It was electrifying at Brick and Mortar on Wednesday, nothing short of. Austin-based Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears made good on making good on a long trip west. I think if some part of Hendrix was listening, he was happy to be there. There had to have been a…

To varying degrees most any adult understands the truth of: ‘everything is cyclical’. The following suggests that there is a case to be made for our civilization tactics and rationale circling back around to the city-state in the data age. …