A lot has been said, written and studied about motivation.  But it’s still something that is hard to maintain and definitely not easy to manage.
I know for myself, I go a month here and a month there where I’m highly motivated and it’s times like that the time just flies by.  Eventually, the roller coaster [...]

Here is a wacky idea I was thinking of a while back.
Picture this problem…
We’ve got all these data centers consuming all kinds of power, which produces an incredible amount of heat which is then counteracted with air conditioning that consumes an immense amount of electricity and ironically produces more heat.
The big picture here, we’re consuming [...]

Ok, we’re all guilty of this on occasion, some more than others.
That’s right, is product A better than product B? Is this deal better than that one? Is it better to go this way or that way?
YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, etc. are big and popular because of the users, not the technology itself.
We’re always [...]