My first experience with consulting was when I hired a consultant for my small family business. We’ll call him Bob, because that was actually his name. Bob helped me a lot. As a semi-retired banker, he worked with me for about $500 a month (this was over a decade ago, so don’t draw any conclusions […]
A blinding flash of the obvious Read Post »
I work in the web development and hosting industry, and this error is probably just thrown because I attempted to look at the payment screen, i.e. the screen I would go to if I made a payment. Still – funny.
Well, okay Synovus Read Post »
If the story of my life is doing too much, today was the story of my life. I attended a Vantage lunch meeting in Huntsville, then drove down to Birmingham to a “Tech Thursday” gathering in Vestavia Hills. Mexican food for lunch, BBQ for dinner. The food was good both places; time will tell whether
Going Real Places; Meeting Real People Read Post »
If you experience miasma from reading LinkedIn or other social media, or for that matter at trade shows or networking events, you may be experiencing bulldust. I started discussing this in a low-key, highly interrupted way last year on this blog, but it’s been difficult. I’m not as big an expert on this subject as
How to not increase the spread of bulldust Read Post »
I keep thinking it would be nice if I got off social media altogether and got back to blogging. It’s all narcissism; blogging was a different, more early-20th century flavor of it. Facebook and Twitter you know (used to know?) that there were eyeballs on it; the question was – could you get a few
Knee-Deep in the Hoopla Read Post »
This is going to be low effort. Just walking around the digital water cooler and starting to notice the tiles falling from the ceiling. Fortunately not at MY workplace; we do something useful. Elon is certainly a big part of the specific problem going on right now, this minute, but there’s something rotten about the
The Decline and Fall of Social Media? Read Post »
Scary nights thinking about who owns social media platforms these days. I’ve never been the most consistent blogger, but I did a lot better job before Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit ate my brain, or at least the free-time part of it. I am considering putting up a message on these accounts (Facebook and Twitter, anyway)
In a previous post I mused about the nature of bulldust and promised to develop a few ideas along these lines. I was beginning to think that promise may have also been bulldust, but I managed to get ahead of life long enough to think about one of my topics: when situations are bulldust-adjacent vs.
How to Know When a Situation is Bulldust-adjacent vs. Totally Dipped in It Pt. 1 Read Post »
https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ Someone has created a demo of what I want to talk about in patterns of bulldust. Enjoy! I’ve been busy with a work project and moving to another house, so I haven’t totally forgotten about my series.
how-i-experience-web-today.com – a definite bulldust demo Read Post »
Let’s get this out of the way first. Due to my Bible-Belt raising and some other philosophical commitments, I have a reservation about spelling the word represented as “BS” out. I will readily admit, however, that it’s hard to find a substitute. This guy has put a lot of thought into that very topic. By
Dark Patterns in BS (or Bulldust, if you Prefer) Read Post »