Just when you thought banks couldn’t sink lower
Bank’s suck. No seriously they do. They are behemouth organizations that are slow to change, don’t give a shit about their customers, and are inherently dishonest. All one has to do is look at the current financial mess they have gotten themselves into to see that they were doing something …
Just when you thought banks couldn’t sink lower
Bank’s suck. No seriously they do. They are behemouth organizations that are slow to change, don’t give a shit about their customers, and are inherently dishonest. All one has to do is look at the current financial mess they have gotten themselves into to see that they were doing something …
Metrics are not a substitute
Andrew Chen posted this interesting piece on A/B split testing: http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/03/02/does-ab-testing-lead-to-crappy-products/ which in turn caused someone in my twitterverse, to comment that metrics are not a substitute for strategy. And he is correct, however metrics can tell you whether your strategy worked or not. They can also help identify gaps in …
Productivity Trilemma, What are you trying to produce
Chris Berry responded to a post that another collegue, Maciek made regarding productivity and cheapening of their product or lowering their labour costs versus niche markets. I think the point that both are trying to make, without actually saying it is that is always about profit. The catch is in ensuring …
Random photos
I am going to leaving my current position at Critical Mass (the word has finally been released). However I though I would share the images I have collected over the past year or so. What the hell did batman do? I swear I have worked with this guy. How fucking …
Perception colors everything
While this isn’t exactly an earth-shattering observation, I have noticed how perception colors everything. It reminds me of a song on Sesame Street – “that’s about the size”. If you notice in our media the enemies are “killed” or “eliminated” while our soldiers are “slain”. The terminology is different because …
An old solution to a new medium
You know what web analytics needs? Open source! Open Source has a wide array of benefits. First, it forces standards. Now the WAA is hard at work in standardizing definitions, but the output is only half the challenge. Browsers are mostly standardized (come-on IE!) and so the missing link is the data collection package. Standardized …
Intending to ride
So I am planning another cross-country attempt this summer. This time I will ride from East to West so that I finish in Victoria. There are some advantages to this. First, my family will be at the finish. They live in Victoria so I presume they will come out, secondly …