Craig’s Musings

Back when I joined Documentum in 1998–later acquired by EMC, I can recall its first CEO, Jeff Miller, saying: “We may not always be right, but at least we’re not confused.” (Fast Company captured a slightly different quote: “It might not be the right plan, but at least we’re not confused.”)
So, when I read a [...]

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Repaving - def. the computer-based act of reformatting the system partition followed by installing a fresh operating system followed by fresh application installations followed by user settings restoration
For starters, it’s a good idea to separate your data from your applications (e.g. C: has OS and software; D: has documents, pictures, music, videos, etc.). You [...]

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Whether you like to think of it as “eating your own dogfood” or “drinking your own champagne”, you may appreciate the following succinct expression of why doing so is vital to your enterprise:
You sell what you know.
You know what you use.
You use what you have access to.

To be clear, “sell” isn’t merely limited to the [...]

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Paul Graham’s essay last month, “Stuff,” really resonates with me. I strongly encourage you to take a few minutes and go read it. Good, isn’t it?!
Stuff appears to be a key contributing factor to the commoditization–er, evaporation–of my time. In fact, I can effectively replace “stuff” with “information” in Paul’s essay and feel equally downtrodden. I’m [...]

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Yesterday Laurence talked about the challenges that a multitude of interfaces can present a solution builder, specifically in the context of ECM, and today Billy added his thoughts. While both posts seem to be focused more on visual interfaces (UI) than non-visual interfaces, the concerns raised apply to interfaces in general.
Here are my thoughts:

I very [...]

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