Stumbling onto 800-CEO-Read, and their top books feature, I found Brogan and Smith’s work.  Brogan’s blog intrigued me enough so I walked down to the Strand here in NYC to pick up a copy. What I found was an excellent

What do you do after founding not one, but two companies and watching them fail miserably all by the time you were barely out of college? Move to the Valley, make shrewd investments in other startups and become insanely rich like

Recently at Surge 2011, the annual  conference on scalability  and performance, Google’s CIO Ben Fried gave an illuminating keynote address. His main insight was that generalists are the people that will lead engineering tea

Help! How To Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done I’ve long overcome that sheepish feeling when browsing the Self-help section at the bookstore. Sure, How to Make Friends and Influence People or the Seven Steps to

Restaurant Scalability Could pro-waitering serve up some lessons on web scalability? Observing peak hour dining at a New York restaurant gave us some insight. I was dining at a restaurant the other day with friends. It was a warm

Shoe leather cost is similar to opportunity cost.  It refers to the cost of counteracting inflation by keeping less of your assets in cash.  Your strategy would require more trips to the bank and more walking, and incur a cost in

Best Practices, the term we hear thrown around a lot.  But like going on that new years diet, too often ends up more talk than action. Manage Processes Operator error ie typing the wrong command is always a risk.  Logging into the

Metrics are those pesky little numbers we like to keep an eye on to see how we’re doing.  Website performance may be full of lots of jargon and fancy terminology but in the end the purpose is the same.  Watch the numbers to

I’ve recently been doing a lot of Search Engine Optimization for my corporate website.  This makes your site more visible and keyword rich for the search engines, helping your customers more easily find you. In that process

I meet new people all the time.  It’s a way of life in New York.  One of the first questions new people ask each other is “What do you do?”.  It begins to sound like a cliche after a while, but it can also provid