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Work

Less Powerpoint, More Prototypes

October 14, 2009

I’m a big believer in hacking together a working prototype to demonstrate product ideas. Powerpoint mocks basically put a shiny gloss on a paper sketch and because it’s not real, generate endless debate where no one is really speaking on authority because the product doesn’t exist.
Once you have a prototype the debate becomes substantive.  Prototypes [...]

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Leaving Yahoo – Going Mobile

October 8, 2008

On Friday I’ll hand over my badge, laptop, and Blackberry, finishing up three years at Yahoo. I’m leaving MyBlogLog in the good hands of Todd Sampson to drive the product vision and manage the engineering team and Tilly McLain who will look over the day-to-day care and feeding of the site and community.
My self-proclaimed tag [...]

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Ambition

August 6, 2007

“Oh, and one more thing just before I head home today”
This note was spotted on one of the MyBlogLog engineer’s desks. Not too ambitious is he? I like the fact that it’s on a Post-It, just a reminder in case you forgot!
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The Walk to School

September 19, 2005

Over on the work blog I’ve posted about switching jobs to work at Yahoo. I’ll be starting next week so I’m spending this week clearing the decks and getting ready. Tyler’s bummed because I will not be able to walk him to school anymore and it’s been the time of day when we get to [...]

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15 minutes of fame

August 4, 2005

While I was in Japan last week, the Oakland Tribune ran a story about corporations getting into blogging. The angle they took was not quite the one I would have stressed (the first step into the blogging world can sometimes be a doozy) but it’s nice to see business blogs getting some coverage in the [...]

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My brush with Louis Rossetto

August 2, 2005

I read Gary Wolf’s Wired, an account of the magazine and it’s founder, Louis Rossetto. The tales within resonate even stronger than most books about this era because I have a personal connection with some of the characters within.
In 1989, just out of UC Berkeley where I had hammered out a 100+ page senior thesis [...]

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Pictures of the office

February 3, 2005

Thanks to another Kennedy (not related) you can see where Mie & I work.
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Commuting Choices

January 13, 2005

At long last our offices are now up in San Francisco so I am no longer taking the automobile down the freeway to work each day. Now the choices of how to get to the office abound:
1. The bus can take me from Alameda to the Transbay bus terminal. There is a stop about five [...]

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Field Trip

December 10, 2004

Today everyone in the office loaded up into a bus and headed up to San Francisco to see our new office into which we’re moving in January. Everyone was in high spirits, the offices in San Mateo are fine but the area has absolutely no character and the commute has been wearing thin for most [...]

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