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Failure - Go out and find it

August 2nd, 2008 ·

A Saturday thought on failure…
I’m not kidding in the title. You should be looking for areas to fail in. You can’t succeed without it. If you’re not accustomed to pushing yourself to the limit, you’ll never reach a goal that exists at the limit.
You should put yourself in situations that significantly challenge your ability to [...]

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Tags: Economics · Education · Managing · Rock Climbing

iofy digital audiobook platform acquired by Ingram Digital

May 29th, 2008 ·

“Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, today announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.”

It’s official. As described in the press release, the iofy digital audiobook platform is now part of Ingram Digital. I’m happy about this move. This is [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Ingram Digital · Managing · Software Development · Web Services · iofy

The morning habit of highly effective people - wake up for yourself

April 17th, 2008 ·

Early Sunrise in Valley Forge - 2003
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In Stephen R. Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, shared traits and behaviors of effective people are described (at the strategic level). I’ve found one habit, at the functional level, which seems to span every effective person I’ve met. I do it too.
It’s waking up and doing [...]

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Tags: Managing · Nike+ · Running

Installing tile - real developers do it themselves

March 23rd, 2008 ·

This weekend my wife and I got an early start Friday to finish off our bathroom’s tile. I’ve been photo-blogging it to Flickr and periodically putting up notes on Twitter. The last couple weekends have been similar, doing plumbing, floor tile, prep work, etc.
Though there is so much [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Flickr · Hiring · Managing · Photography · Real Estate · Remodeling · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services

Sharing the love with Google Shared items

March 13th, 2008 ·

Google Reader has a great feature for sharing articles. It’s been a terrific way to share interesting and pertinent information affecting iofy and to give like-minded folks easy access to my favorite RSS feeds.
You can access my shared page here.
Or pull the feed here.
And with any luck, a drop of the most recent items will [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Education · Google · Managing · iofy

Keeping an organized workflow in Safari

March 5th, 2008 ·

Rather than letting long must-read articles interrupt my flow, I’m using Safari and tabs to keep things organized. Lifehacker got me thinking about this with their Firefox Serial Flow article, but I find it even more efficient in Safari (and I’m on the whole WebKit thing).
I simply keep a separate window and open pages I want to review later [...]

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Tags: Education · Managing

iofy is hiring

February 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We need a PHP programmer to join the dev team at iofy corporation. This is a full-time, based in Philadelphia, position.
The corporate version of the ad is on Craig’s List (also available after the jump).
If you’ve read this far you’ve probably laughed your ass off double-taked, “Philadelphia!?” … You’re right to do so. But seriously, [...]

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Tags: Hiring · Managing · Web Services · iofy