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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The forth dimension… Time
One of the things that I didn’t realize until recently is that time passes at different rates for people depending on their employment status. The people on the hiring end are caught up in the day to day chaos which … Continue reading
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Tagged forth dimension, job search, life, patience, relativity, temporal zones, time, urgency
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Ageism and the new work force.
Is it a good idea to hire older workers? It seems that there are a number of conflicting views on this subject. Some people feel that it is important to staff companies with younger less costly workers. We could call … Continue reading
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Tagged ageism, experience workers, new grads, older workers, Retirement, workers over 50
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Take time to innovate… or die…
One of the things that I have learned is that there is always someone out there doing the same thing that you are. We have copy rights and patents to protect our creations but there are people who argue that … Continue reading
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Tagged company success, innovate or die, innovation, source of innovation
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Retirement ???
I have had alot of people ask me lately when I plan to retire. I find this a really odd question that I usually answer with “I retired in 1981 when I graduated and I have been having fun ever … Continue reading
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Tagged doing everything, Generalist, life, Retirement, the perfect job, why retire?
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SSD write endurance
I had a reader suggest that I take a look at this topic. It’s been a while since I did any hardware development but the hard disk in this computer, the storage in my iPhone and iPad and many other … Continue reading
Fluidware
Fluidware is latest in a string of ventures from the serial entrepreneur Eli Fathi. This time he has partnered with a dynamic duo (brothers) Aydin and Amin Mirzaee and Samuel Cormier. The company was founded in 2008 as Chide.it and … Continue reading
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Tagged chide.it, companies to watch, data collection, FluidSurveys, fluidware, ReviewRoom, start ups, web forms, web questionaire, web survey
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Where have all the hardware companies gone?
When I graduated in 1981 and took my first job at Mitel, I was debugging boards for the SX200 PABX. That job eventually evolved into building automatic testers which involved both hardware and software design. From there I transitioned to … Continue reading
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Tagged analog circuit design, hardware, off-shore, tech companies, tech startups
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What’s in a name?
Over the weekend I had an opportunity to review some of the most successful start-ups in both the USA and Canada. One of the things that jumped out at me was that independent of the products, the names of the … Continue reading
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Tagged click throughs, Interpretation, key word searches, names, naming a company, start ups
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