Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. The blog needed a new name, but I also working on naming the new entity, and realized it might be possible to find a name that would work well for both. Ghost and Squarespace are … CMSs.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

This was probably best illustrated in what’s been called the single most famous edit in the history of cinema, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s from a 1962 report published by a man named Douglas Engelbart. Ultimately, tools are a part of who we are and how we conceive of ourselves. Modern software is obsessed with tools.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. Not all agile is bad agile.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And we had speakers that came out of music and fitness and all of these speakers we had and then we had one person that came out of marketing world Ryan Dice and we had one person that came out of the sales world and his name is Grant Cardone and we had a Grant come up. So I have like three mentors named Sam.

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