Tomorrow will be my last day with EMC after developing an 11-year career that began at Documentum.
I will always remember the Documentum of 1998. We were right in the middle of “Project Piper,” which released as Documentum 4i. My team was focused on delivering the first version of the Documentum Desktop (aka Desktop Client), the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Moving on
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Tags:career·Documentum·EMC·farewell
Revisiting the passage of time via a tree
April 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Back on 7/30/2005, I marked time by reporting a new tree plant. Until now, I hadn’t followed with how time has “grown” since.
When you compare the first original picture to the one above, it’s clear that the tree has grown quite nicely. In addition, you can see why this particular variety of tree was planted–for [...]
Recovering well
March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Lessons, Life
Last month I revealed that I suffered a basketball injury (i.e. a high rupture of my right Achilles tendon, requiring surgical repair). Yesterday marked the six-week point since surgery. Today I completed my third week of physical therapy and being out of a cast and in a walking boot. This afternoon was my three-week follow-up [...]
Fallen weekend warrior
February 19th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Life
“What happened to you?”
Since my return to the office this week, it’s pretty obvious that something did, indeed, happen to me.
No, I didn’t work on “Red Dog” (i.e. Windows Azure)—for those of you were attended last year’s PDC and saw the bright red shoes worn proudly by those on the main stage during keynotes.
What you [...]
Tags:Achilles·basketball·cast·injury·surgery
Outliers
December 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Life, Non-fiction, Open source, Random, Site
Since reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell’s next book. Outliers: The Story of Success didn’t disappoint, and I recommend reading it yourself.
As the book’s title suggests, Gladwell’s text is about success and outliers; however, [...]
Tags:deliberate practice·Gladwell·Hofstede·legacy·opportunity·outlier·Outliers·PDI·success·work
