Five Things You Don’t Know About Me
Thanks to Rachel for tagging me!
One
I wanted to be a rock star from about 12 years old until around 16 — I even went as far as to record my own 12-song album where I wrote all the songs and played all the instruments.
No, you can’t hear it. I’m not even sure Rachel has heard the entire thing…
Two
I bite my nails like crazy. As a result, I get sore fingers…which totally suck.
Three
I played a lot of sports as a kid / teenager, but stopped when I got really started into business.
I had / have to overcome the “fear” of not having a University degree, and accordingly, I read a ton of business books. I hate the thought police, but am learning to deal with that stuff.
Four
I learn most effectively when starting with advanced concepts and then progressively moving back to simple ones and the fundamentals. I work a lot on instinct, and question (constantly) those with many years of experience when unsure to make sure my instincts are correct.
Five
The large majority of my happiest memories from teenage-hood involve my now Wife, and I couldn’t be happier about that. We’ve been together since I was in grade 12 (when I went through high school in Canada, we went to grade 13), and she was in grade 11.
We met on a school trip to Europe and I absolutely love the way she tells our story. Whenever it comes up, I just look to her and listen — it’s awesome.
Windows Live Writer
This product is pretty friggin cool.
It looks slick, it feels slick, and wouldn’t you know, I’m like one of the last people to actually realize it freakin’ exists.
Blame it on working through .NET wrappers and baselining products.
Yes, it only runs on Windows, which is going just fine on my ole Thinkpad, thank you very much.
I am pleasantly surprised that it does support blogs OTHER than Live Spaces, which rocks.
Outstanding PM Blog
I want to point out the blog Grillin’ in the Storm.
Subscribe to this, visit it daily, etc… The posts on here are so freakin’ amazing — I’ve learned more from all of the posts here than I have from any book I’ve read on Product Management.
Thoughts on Product Management
A big “Write That Down” welcome (whatever that is) to a new linker / blogroller — Thoughts on Product Management. I’m looking forward to diving in and reading the archives, and look forward to all future thoughts / ideas / comments / etc…
Scoble Heading to Podtech
Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft and headed for PodTech.net. This is just broke tonight across several blogs. Amazing, this inter-connected World we have here.
I don’t know Robert personally, but I have to say he seems very cool and down-to-earth. I wish him nothing but the absolute best of luck, and know he’ll keep on delivering the same oustanding content he has for many years.
I always love to see exciting and cool things happen to those with nothing but class and a true passion for what they do.
Congrats, Robert!
