Good ideas, and how to turn good ideas into great products
I had a hellacious time on my ride to work today! Until I ran over what turned out to be the blade from a DitchWitch — a metal bar about 8 inches long, and sharpened like a lawn mower blade at each end. It tore a hole in my tire, took a small chip out [...]
In July I rode four-fifths of the world-famous “Markleeville Death Ride.” The entire ride is 126 miles long, over five Sierra (California) mountain passes, and racks up over 16,000 feet of climbing. My personal ride, and my personal target for my first attempt, was to do the first four passes. This shorter version is only [...]
NetIQ Corp. San Jose, CA
6/99–Present
Product Manager/Senior Product Manager (6/99-present)
Responsible for NetIQ
We ate at Quince, on Octavia at Bush Street in San Francisco, last week. There were five of us, and we’re all the type who share food. It’s a pretty hoity-toity restaurant, the type where when your entrees come they mobilize enough waiters with your food so all the plates hit the table at the [...]
I just read FAB, by Neil Gershenfeld, and he talks in that book (and in a fantastic talk from the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conferece that’s available on IT Conversations) about how fabrication — making things — is changing from a “take things away” approach to a “build from constituent parts” approach. His model for fabrication [...]
