Decentralizing Agendas and Decisions
Allowing groups to self-organize, set their own agendas, and decide without central guidance or planning requires being vulnerable and trusting. But the results are worth the risk.
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February 2016 CTO Breakfast
February 5, 2016 08—10am : Utah CTO Breakfast at Tower Deli - Thanksgiving Point The Utah CTO Breakfast is held monthly. The breakfast is an informal, no-host event. Come prepared to discuss you favorite technologies, development tool and practices, or whatever. Categories: #ctob, #uttech
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CTO Breakfast in Ogden This Week
We're doing the December CTO Breakfast at Startup Ogden. I hope you can join us!
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CTO Breakfast Report for April 2007
Today was bring your child to CTO Breakfast day. Not officially, but with today being Spring Break, there were a few here. I brought my son so he could visit a friend who lives south. Scott Lemon just got back from Web 2.0. The first thing he talked about was Instructables, a step-by-step collaboration site. There are all kinds of plans for creating guns with K'Nex. There are also other things, of course. You can get the slides from the talk here. He was also pretty juiced about Joost, the P2P video application from the creators of Skype. I
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CTO Breakfast This Friday
Our monthly CTO breakfast will be held this Friday at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria, Building G, Provo Campus. Check the CTO Breakfast page for directions and future dates. What's been on my mind lately is Seth Godin's hopeful visit to Utah in May, virtualization, and Twitter. Bring whatever topic's been gnawing at you and we'll have a good conversation. We always do. Remember, the event is free (you pay for your own breakfast) and anyone interested in high-tech companies and products is invited. You don't have to be a CTO. If you're hesitant to drive all the way
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CTO Breakfast Links for March 2007
Mentioned at this morning's CTO Breakfast: I brought up Twitter. Until last week I'd never heard of it, now it seems I hear about it several times a day. I signed up to play with it. My first reaction is that the Web site is sloooooooooooow. Kathy Sierra wonders if Twitter is too good. The basic question is whether the level of interruption justifies the potential good. I think I'm siding with Kathy on this one. Barry Bryson brought is TomTom, a Bluetooth enabled GPS device that ties to the Treo (and other things) and gives you portable navigation
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CTO Breakfast for March 2007
We'll hold the March CTO Breakfast this Thursday at 8am in the Novell Cafeteria (see directions here) in Building G of the Provo Novell Campus. At least one person has contacted me and asked if we could discuss what I can best describe as "open source gravitus" in Utah. Does Utah have enough open source happening to create some interesting synergies? This group apparently thinks so. Some of us were at the Mountain West Ruby conference last week and I'm sure that will come up. As always, I'm intrigued by identity. What's eating you? Come talk about it. Here
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CTO Breakfast Thursday
We'll hold the CTO breakfast this Thursday at 8am. Last time we met in the Novell Cafeteria and that worked really well. Folks coming from Salt Lake reported that it was perhaps even shorter than driving over to Canyon Park. As usual, the conversation will be informal and free-form. Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies is welcome. Here are the scheduled dates so far: March 22 (Thursday) April 20 (Friday) (changed!) May 24 (Thurdsday) Jun 28 (Friday) Here's directions: Take the University Ave exit off I-15, cross University Ave, and turn
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January CTO Breakfast Report
We talked about the recent SHA-1 hack and the MD5 exploits that are available. Lockcrack (a password cracking program) apparently has a table of pre computed hashes now installed that make cracking many hashes a job of just a few seconds. There's a pattern in some technology start-ups where there's a brilliant technologist who has an idea that many others can't quite understand. They attract some money and generate a lot of hype on the basis of their brilliance, but eventually fail because they can't explain what they do. We got into a discussion of phones and convergence. Richard
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CTO Breakfast for January (at Novell)
It's time to start the CTO Breakfast series for 2007! We'll be meeting in a new place this time, so pay attention. The CTO Breakfast for January will be help Thursday Jan 25th at 8am at the Novell Cafeteria. As usual you can bring any topic that has caught your interest for discussion. I'm anxious to talk about Windows Vista, bad software, and the new iPhone. Here's directions: Take the University Ave exit off I-15, cross University Ave, and turn left (north) onto Novell Place and enter the Novell campus. When you drive up to bldg H (the 8-story
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