Archive for February, 2006
The value of GTD
It’s been over a month since I started flirting around the margins of GTD, and it’s working pretty well. My inbox sits at about 200 messages, which isn’t bad for the volume of e-mail I get. I’m finding it quite easy to focus on what I need to be doing at any given [...]
Disconnected from the desk actually means more connected
In Jeremy’s “where almost doesn’t matter” post, he mentions that I often gather my stuff and say, “I’m living out of my bag for the rest of the day.”
So why do I do that? Tim Converse nails it for me:
My hunch is that what being unchained from your desk makes possible is [...]
Notes from Mashup Camp
Unfortunately for me, some pressing work obligations came up on the second day of Mashup Camp so I wasn’t able to attend, but I did make it the first day and had a great time while I was there. I apologize to people I missed. David Berlind and Doug Gold did an [...]
See you at Mashup Camp
I’ll be at Mashup Camp on Monday and Tuesday. Hope to see some of you there. If you want to meet up, e-mail me at chad at chaddickerson with the usual dot com at the end.
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Bradley (my boss) is blogging
If you want to know more about one of the key people driving some of the coolest stuff happening at Yahoo, subscribe to Bradley Horowitz’s blog now. (Bradley happens to be my boss).
I first met Bradley in person when he was on a panel I was moderating at the Syndicate conference last May. [...]
Tactical is the new strategic
I was talking to a friend recently who works in a large Silicon Valley company about the expectations of managers within large companies and we discussed how big company managers routinely describe themselves as either “tactical” or “strategic.” Typically, those who say they are “strategic” talk down to those considered more “tactical,” directly or [...]
Yahoo! User Interface Library: amazing and free
In my very first days at Yahoo! working with the team that made the Local Events Browser demo using a bunch of Yahoo! APIs, I was really amazed at the Javascript/CSS talent assembled at Yahoo! As of today, a huge chunk of it is out there for anyone to use and the people who [...]
Amtrak bus: don’t think so
When a successful commute depends on both a phone company and public transportation, something just has to go wrong.
I didn’t get to try my new Verizon EVDO service today on my commute as I had hoped. Track work (details here) on the Capital Corridor line prevented me from taking the Amtrak train, though they [...]
First EVDO speed test — wow
I used the CNET Bandwidth Meter to test my new Verizon Wireless EVDO service (the stuff came in the mail today). The gear took less than 5 minutes to install, and no problems. Check out the speed numbers:
870.5kbps on the first try. This is looking pretty good (I’m sitting in the Yahoo! [...]
Beating the commute with EVDO
My blogging output has been miserable as of late and it’s been bugging me because I really like sitting down to write and there are lots of big blogarific thoughts rolling around in my head these days. That being said, getting down to Yahoo! a few times a week (when I’m not working in [...]