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What We Can Learn from Silicon Valley | Blog of Mark McGuire
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Blog of Mark McGuire. Entrepreneurship and other stuff. Wabakimi Wilderness Trip-August 2014. Travel School. What I Learned Homeschooling my Son for Five Months. Why I’m Working at an Insurance Company →. What We Can Learn from Silicon Valley. July 14, 2015. I’ll admit it. As an entrepreneur working in Wisconsin, I’m jealous of Silicon Valley. A few weeks ago, a social planning app called Free ( Ffrree.com. Is in this list of casualties. And a coveted spot in Apple’s Featured App section. This is a HUGE ...
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Born a Leader or Made a Leader? - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Born a Leader or Made a Leader? Are leaders born or made? I’m Going Pro. I am fit, lift weights, run, played sports in college, etc… but no matter how hard I try I could never, ever, not possibly make it in pro sports. As they say I “just don’t have it.”. View all posts by William →. How To Deal With Stress. Leadership Styles in the Workplace. Don’t Fall Victim To Team Growth. Leadership Styles in the Workplace.
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Now My Troubles are Going to Have Troubles With Me - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Now My Troubles are Going to Have Troubles With Me. My favorite quote of all time:. I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! View all posts by William →. Should You Get An MBA? Don’t Fall Victim To Team Growth. Leadership Styles in the Workplace. On Agile is Dead.
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Never Say No - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Developers, Never Say No To Your Customers. Bad customer service is maddening. Very few things get me more worked up than a customer service rep telling me they cannot help me because “it’s against their company’s policy.” This translates directly to “I have the ability to help you but my company has decided we do not want to.”. You two in the back who put down your hand…put it back up.). Don’t believe me? 8220;these requests ...
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Growing as a Software Developer - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Growing as a Software Developer. Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times? Just like running, or weight lifting, or anything you have to push yourself beyond your stasis point to grow. How does the joke about the professor go? 8220;I don’t know what is wrong with these students! View all posts by William →. Should You Get An MBA? Legacy Code Is Life. How To Deal With Stress.
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Unable to update database to match the current model - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Unable to update database to match the current model. This message results from having unapplied pending migrations to your code first data model (and have disable automatic migrations). Run “Add-Migration” then “Update-Database” and you should be back up and running. View all posts by William →. How To Deal With Stress. Don’t Fall Victim To Team Growth. Stop Brainstorming and Start Doing: Why Idea Generation Fails.
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Agile is Dead - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Go through you LinkedIn connections, count the number of people who list SCRUM or Agile Methodologies as a skill, then count up how many of them can actually tell you what those phrases even mean. Or count the number of times you have seen an Agile team who has not deployed code to production in the last 6 months. It’s depressing isn’t it? Start with an idea:. Do you have an idea for a feature that needs developed? Do a little...
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William Edmondson - Page 2 of 4 - Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Now My Troubles are Going to Have Troubles With Me. My favorite quote of all time:. I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! How far are you willing to go to conquer your fears? Confront your Fear head on? Fear is a shadow that lurks in the dark corners of our mind ...
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Should You Get An MBA? - William Edmondson
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Ecommerce, architecture, career, and other reasons I want to meet Alton Brown. Should You Get An MBA? I am both an avid “self educator” and a very recent MBA grad from a relatively prestigious business school. While I am not in the corner office (yet) I have already seen concrete, direct impact from these educational experiences. I have also spent considerable time talking with successful business leaders (both MBA grads and not) trying to understand what has made them successful. Pros for an MBA. Cachet...
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