I love some of the Amazon thinking on decisions, especially this: make reversible decisions quickly, it’s okay to get some of them wrong if you go faster in return. I’m not sure if they invented this concept but they were the ones I learnt it from. How does this work? 1. Make Reversible Decisions Quickly …

As a group, humans are bad at digesting really big and equally bad news. When faced with disaster, we seem to have evolved, at least collectively, a tendency to become tremendously optimistic. …

I like to share bits of my screen on a regular basis. A quick look at my screenshot folder suggests I’ve done this at least 5,000 times in the past five years. Usually I’m sharing something but increasingly I’m making a recording, like a cancellation confirmation or bill payment. …

Being an entrepreneur, by definition, means foregoing the comforts that come with a salaried job and venturing out into the unknown. On the one hand it’s very empowering, but on the other it can also be absolutely terrifying. Entrepreneurs all expect to learn some lessons the hard way, but what if your worst fear actually comes to pass? What if you not only fail but fail big? Few would guess that I, CEO and founder of Cloudability, have a big failure under my belt. From all outside appearances the company has been pretty successful. We were named one of the most promising cloud companies of 2011 in our first year in business, and we’ve won several awards since. Now set to double our workforce in 2014, we’ve been nominated for TAO’s Tech Company of the Year.

I’m the CEO & Founder of Cloudability. We’re based in cloudy Portland, Oregon. Eric asked me to take a few minutes to talk to you about a big shift we’re seeing in the role of the CIO. The growth of the Internet of “Things” gives us some interesting data about…

So you want to be a tech entrepreneur? I may have some advice. “It’s a wonderful thing to do a startup, but it’s really hard,” I told the crowd gathered Sunday for the finale of Portland Startup Weekend. For one thing, the pay is terrible. I make the same salary as he did back in 1993, and I don’t get to see my family very much. Read the full article at Portland Business Journal

If you are cooking for more than a dozen guests this Thanksgiving Day, smoking a large piece of brisket is an easy way to keep everyone happy and do something different. Using US-grown Wagyu beef makes for a very memorable turkey day feast. Thanksgiving Can be Hard Work A few years ago my wife took…

As an IT professional dealing with corporate budgets it’s easy to get wrapped up in the large numbers and consider any sum less than a thousand bucks a rounding error. However, saving money on the Cloud has an immediate and compound effect. …

In a talk at the TAO Tech Leadership Forum on August 4, I explained why moving to the Cloud makes cost management so much harder, and why cloud costs require a completely new approach to managing your technology supply chain. Listen to the whole talk (7:35) and learn the three factors driving the volatile nature of cloud costs, as well as the specific processes and controls that can turn a move to the Cloud into a well-managed business advantage.