So, there’s going to be this great big party and sporting event in Vancouver called the Winter Olympics. It’s starting, well, it started years ago, but the peak of excitement is Feb. 12 - 28. And yeah, I’m excited.
Yesterday, Rachael, our office manager, turned in extended notice to my company. Her desire to depart comes on the heels of similar news from Justin, our senior programmer, who told us just after Christmas that he was going to go into business for himself. Suddenly, after several years of having multiple employees, I face the imminent prospect of having none.
The latest craze these days is formspring.me, a service that lets people ask anonymous questions: questions about me, about the world, about anything. I’m game.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)