Posts with keyword: work

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Leaving AWS

Tue May 27 18:15:00 2025

I am no longer working for AWS, but I'm still active in digital identity and working on a new book on authorization for Manning.
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A few weeks ago Yammer walked away with top honors at TechCrunch 50. I'd been hearing about it, so last week I went over and signed up. I'm really liking it. Yammer is Twitter for work. The first person to sign up using an email from a particular domain establishes a sandbox for yammers from people in that domain. Since I signed up using my kynetx.com email, Yammer automatically created a domain for Kynetx and made me an administrator. Very low friction. I sent out invites and soon had the whole Kynetx gang yammering away about work. Only people
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Some Thoughts on Co-Working

Mon Sep 10 09:42:00 2007

Sean O'Steen, one of the hard-working audio editors on IT Conversations, had an article at Web Worker Daily on co-working in Berkeley. Sean's article discusses the concept of co-working in general and the Berkeley Coworking site in particular. If you're not familiar with it, co-working is the trend for developers, writers, independents, and other professionals to spend at least part of their day in a shared, public space. Starbucks, Borders, libraries, and other places that have Wi-Fi have been popular hang outs for some time and now people have started to create specific co-working spaces like the Berkeley one.
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CTO Breakfast Report: The No-Employee Business

Thu Feb 15 11:44:00 2007

At this months' CTO Breakfast we had a long discussion about preparing students for careers in software this morning. We debated how much students need to know real tools like Subversion, Eclipse, Ant, and so on versus knowing how to design. I'm not convinced that the two are separable, which was another thread in the discussion. No decisions, naturally, but informative to me and I hope others. This led to a discussion of off shoring which then led to a longer discussion on switching from a reliance on paychecks to living from multiple revenue streams. Of course, this is
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