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Upgrades & Updates

Work tranches

Knowing that we’ve worked on something is not the same as understanding what we did at the time, and what notes and research were involved.

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The Narrative

Interruptions

Interruptions are a blunt force of disruption, cutting the deepest because it’s the context that’s often the first thing lost in the aftermath of it…

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The Narrative

Going It Alone: Building a Software Product as a Solopreneur

Yes, I am a solopreneur, but would I recommend becoming a one? That does depend on you, because it’s a demanding lifestyle…

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The Narrative

Methodical after the fact

“What the heck is a search methodology?” I asked, perhaps not using those exact words.

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Thought Experiment

The myth of the second brain

Doing research is more than shoving a bunch of things into the same folder, adding a load of tags, or a combination of the two.

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The Narrative

An imperfect guide to building the ultimate digital research assistant, the Under Cloud: Part 1

Yes, this is a bold claim, but it helps to aim high and to cultivate some self belief in what we do. So if it’s not the ultimate now, the goal is to — paraphrase the great Captain Jean-Luc Picard — make it so!