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DISA Strategic Plan 2013 – 2018
The DISA Strategic Plan for 2013 – 2018 was published today. These documents, outside of providing a loosely divided plan for what DISA will be working in the next five years, serve as a guidepost for...
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Online Learning
Over the past couple of years, there has been an explosion of free, quality learning opportunities online. This has been covered a lot in the news, and is a reaction to the continued absurd rise in...
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Pivot
In the early 2000s, I was privileged to go through a formal leadership training program while I worked at SRA. The program was three two-day sessions over a period of 3-4 months. Each two-day session...
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The Role of the Project Manager
This month I decided to take a new job as a Project Manager for a set of technical projects. For many, especially highly technical engineers and developers, the Project Manager role is treated as a...
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The Need for a Translation Layer
From The Atlantic article When the Nerds Go Marching In: In fact, some shakeups were necessary. Reed and Slaby sent some product managers packing and brought in more traditional ones like former...
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Amen!
Love this quote from a Medium post from Dustin Diaz about building a new Twitter interface: What did I learn? Nothing nobody hasn’t heard before. But it was good to experience them first hand. And in...
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Mark Cuban’s Take on Passion
Because everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really, really...
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“Harvest” the Social Tribe for a Startup
I have been very fortunate for the last 15 years to surround myself with fun and smart people in my life outside of work. I typically refer to this group as my social tribe, or even Tribe 416....
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Google Reader replacement – feedly
Google Reader died two weeks ago… Many of us are still in mourning. But luckily before it died, I installed feedly, a Reader replacement. Pretty damn good so far, and actually getting better.
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Rules to live by – The Washington Post
My father pointed this letter to the editor today. Very true. 1) Being smart is not enough 2) Being right doesn’t matter 3) Good luck beats intellect 4) Politics trump reason 5) Emotion defeats...
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