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Adam Kalsey

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Daily Reading from May 01, 2008

1 May 2008

Links to what I’ve been reading recently.

  • Front Channel: Our Micro Business Model - — Uncover and stream the backchannels of a conference
  • Jeffrey Zeldman: Stick out your tongue — "After the shoot was completed, the client told our account executive that the product did not exist and the commercial was never going to run."
  • T2000 CPU Performance - Watch out — "Sun is aggressively pushing T2000 as Scalable MySQL Platforms, and indeed it is Scalable in terms of high concurrency workloads - it is able to execute a lot of concurrent threads and so speed gain from 1 thread to say ..."
  • Board of Directors 101: How to Run a Meeting — "Josh Kopelman recently pointed out an excellent post by Guy Kawasaki on the Art of the Board Meeting. Kawasaki's recommendations are to the point, and right on. These three recommendations in particular struck home, so I wanted to share them:1. ..."
  • Mozy Ships MozyHome for Mac — "Mozy, an online backup solution that’s crossed our radar before, has good news for Mac users: their MozyHome for Mac client has officially moved out of beta to version 1.0. MozyHome gives you 2GB of backup space online for free; ..."
  • New Relic gets $3.5M to help manage Ruby on Rails applications — "New Relic, a startup that helps you manage applications built with the Ruby on Rails framework, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of funding. Both Ruby on Rails and computing in the Internet “cloud” have been heating up ..."
  • Can having information public hurt consulting business ? — "People frequently ask me if the fact we keep information public can hurt our consulting business ? Lets keep aside for the moment amount of new business publishing this information brings to us but think it also have significant negative ..."
  • Why Can’t Microsoft Close The Deal? — "TechCrunch has another Xobni rumor this morning. This one says that Xobni walked away from a deal to sell itself to Microsoft:But the deeper that Xobni got into the discussions, the less comfortable it felt about its eventual fate inside ..."
  • Dell is Really Selling Ubuntu Machines

Recently Written

VC’s Future Lies In Building Winners
Jun 21: AI and megafunds are about to kill the traditional venture model, forcing smaller VCs to stop hunting for hidden gems and start rolling up their sleeves to fix broken companies instead.
Should individual people have OKRs?
May 14: A good OKR describes and measures an outcome, but it can be challenging to create an outcome-focused OKR for an individual.
10 OKR traps and how to avoid them
May 8: I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.
AI is Smart, But Wisdom Requires Judgement
May 3: AI can process data at lightning speed, but wisdom comes from human judgment—picking the best imperfect option when facts alone don’t point the way.
Decoding Product Leadership Titles
Mar 18: Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.
What branding can teach about culture
Jan 8: Culture is your company’s point of view in action—a framework guiding behavior, even in the unknown. You can’t copy it; it must reflect your unique perspective.
Think Systems, not Symptoms
Dec 15: Piecemeal process creation frustrates teams and slows work. Stop patching problems and start solving systems. Adopting a systems thinking approach helps you design processes that are efficient, aligned with goals, and truly add value.
Your Policies Aren’t Your Culture
Dec 13: Policies guide behavior, but culture is the lived norms and values of your team. Policies reflect culture -- they don’t define it. Netflix’s parental leave shift didn’t change its culture of freedom and responsibility. It clarified how to live it.

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