Last year, when our home briefly went without Microsoft Windows in our unsuccessful Mac experiment, one of the applications I had the most difficult time replacing was Microsoft Money. I had been using it for 3+ years to track our net worth and experiment a little with budgeting. I tried using Quicken for the Mac, [...]
I love seeing companies trying unconventional ways to motivate their employees to keep them healthy, happy, and more productive. The folks at 37 Signals have always been pushing this envelope. They have a small office in Chicago, but less than half of their (dozen or so) employees work there with the rest are spread out [...]
I might need to come up with more material to blog about so that this doesn’t become a list of articles that somebody else if feeding me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octMaIKiSUA
A friend of mine from a way back, Mike Mettler, broadcasts these URLs every once in a while through his GMail profile. Mike is a smart guy, and the articles usually deal with some issue that is out there simmering but hasn’t come to a boil yet. They lay out a problem (often one that [...]
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