Today was a very active day for my brain. While I didn’t solve world hunger I do think I had some pretty nifty ideas. One of the ideas that I had, for the life of me I can’t remember now, but what I do remember is a feeling of excitement and thinking it warranted further investigation. Gone now, no further investigation possible – I guess you get that. The idea must not have been very good if I can’t remember it now – that’s what they say anyway.
I decided today I don’t agree with them. I want a way that I can effectively capture ideas that come in that flash and are gone when more pressing issues arise…
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posted on the April 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
Very recently, the New York Times ran an article on the correlation between depression and certain mental disciplines. It’s definitely a thought provoking read, and the title “Depression’s Upside” is bound to spark some controversy. If you experience depression or know someone that experiences depression then it’s well worth the 7 page read, as it’s probably one of the most well crafted pieces of text I have ever read on the topic:
Depression’s Upside @ NYTimes.com
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posted on the February 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Living life with depression in my own words, “sucks arse”. I do generally try to keep my language clean, but I have no other way to really describe the condition. Certainly not in my case at least. Today is the third day in a row that I have been away from work due to depression.
While I have always attempted to be as open as possible with my managers (given the impact the condition has on them), I have found it much more difficult to be open about things with my peers and people who work for me. Well today, I just chose to tell it how it was, and I honestly think that was the best thing to do. That does, however, mean I need to be this open with everyone so I am not putting others in a difficult situation of knowing something about me that is not widely known.
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posted on the January 18th, 2010 24 Comments »
The amount of discussion that has gone on projecting twitter’s demise based on “stalled growth” is very interesting. I think this particular example demonstrates very well that current competitive analysis techniques used for web business are broken and failing to deliver the information genuinely needed.
I believe the web is currently informationally, functionally and economically constrained from further evolution.
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posted on the January 13th, 2010 1 Comment »
It’s been a couple of weeks now since we got our first looks at Google Wave, and the dust is starting to settle. In the process of the dust settling for me, I really started question why we aren’t already actively using a key component of Google Wave on the web. The component I am referring to is being able to comment inline (or contextually) on web content such as blog articles.
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posted on the June 12th, 2009 No Comments »
