A blog about technology, design, business and leadership

Sep 24, 2013

In Order to be Flexible, Be Inflexible

One thing that I have learned through observation is that we (people), especially within a working role, can be very contradictory. We love processes. We like to distill the things we can do into little efficient packets of potential accomplishment and then sell…

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Mar 25, 2014

Dealing with Evolving Business and Strategic Needs

If you run a business, or are a smaller part of the whole, your job is to fulfill needs. These needs take on many broad shapes, though I’m sure it’s easy to identify the ones that haunt impact you every day. In order to fulfill these needs…

Andrew Walpole in {{Nested Loops}}

Aug 25, 2014

4 Reasons to Bring Digital In-House

Digital is a buzzword. One that even if it doesn’t stick, its definition will carry-on through whatever new terms we conjure up. It is the medium that makes up the experiences we consume through technology, the web, apps, etc.

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Feb 14, 2013

The Developer Experience

User Experience (UX) design and the concepts that come with it play a big role in the way I design and develop every day. If you’re creating something for anyone, you’re doing a disservice to your creating it if you don’t take into account what their experience will be once you hand…

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Aug 10, 2015

Doubling Down on Culture and Process

Over the last few years or so I have put culture and process building at the top of my professional interests. With programming and design I am by no means at a point where I no longer need to learn, but having taken on a leadership role and just generally getting…

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Apr 18, 2014

Don’t Future Proof with Mediocrity

I was exposed to an interesting notion the other day. In corporate IT, future proofing is really important to sustain value in the products and services you deploy and manage. But in hearing someone explain how they go about future proofing their solutions it really…

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Feb 15, 2013

Your Ideas aren’t Original

A vast majority of the time, your ideas aren’t original. If this discourages you, I would recommend you spend some time changing the way you think about it. If an idea is not original, that has no bearing on it being good, in fact you could argue that the less unique it is, the…

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Feb 21, 2013

The Dart Programming Language: First Impressions

A little over a year ago, the googleverse was buzzing about Dart. I must have had a lot going on back then, since I definitely failed to get past the landing page that day. Recently, I was able to take a deeper look at the programming language…

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Aug 20, 2013

On Finding Time and Rebooting

I tried to come up with some general philosophical introduction about time being variable and the business of life. But, as life is busy, I’d rather just get straight to the point.

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Mar 12, 2014

Switch

I recently finished the book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, after my CEO recommended it to me. A great book. The concepts presented aren’t terribly complex, but they are extremely useful. When it comes to changing behavior, the “switch framework” that the book presents is really about two…

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