BAD, or The Dumbing of America — A worthwhile read 15 years ago, and still relevant today.
In his book, BAD, or the Dumbing of America, Paul Fussell suggested that one of the best ways to make America a less dumb place would be to eliminate athletic scholarships entirely.
I agree — I think that the [...]
Category Archives: Bidniss
College Professor Salaries vs. College Football Coach Salaries
December 10, 2007 – 12:06 pm
Tucows on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech 100”
August 23, 2007 – 10:19 am
(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
What’s a blog for, if not to toot one’s own horn, or at least the horn of the company for whom he is a spokesmodel?
Tucows, where I’ve worked for four years and where I hold the title of Technical Evangelist, is on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech [...]
ICT Toronto: I Know What You DIDN’T Do This Summer
September 15, 2006 – 2:26 pm
Back in April, the local press and various banks, investors and city councillors made a lot of hubbub about an initiative called ICT Toronto. The initiative’s goal was laudable: to boost the profile of Toronto in information and communications technologies, bringing us from the #3 area in North America in those fields (New York holds [...]
I Really Should Keep a Closer Eye on the Suit-y Stuff…
August 15, 2006 – 4:00 pm
…otherwise, I’d have remembered that Tucows’ CEO Elliot Noss was doing a presentation today at the Red Chip Small-Cap Investor Conference, which takes place in New York City today and tomorrow. I did manage to catch the latter two-thirds of his presentaion (which was simulcast on the ‘net), in which he explained Tucows’ business and [...]
Presentation of the Day
July 7, 2006 – 2:53 pm
That will have to go to Andrew Baron of Rocketboom — yes, that Rocketboom — who will be presenting at CaseCamp tonight.
(CaseCamp is another spinoff “camp” from BarCamp, which I explain in this entry. Just as DemoCamp is a monthly show-and-tell where local techies demonstrate their current projects in front of a group of their [...]
Meanwhile, in the Blog I Get Paid to Write…
June 29, 2006 – 8:31 pm
Over at Tucows Farm, an entry about being both a developer and a marketer, with a link to a particularly intriguing entry in Seth Godin’s blog. That, and a little Photoshoppery…
On Becoming Silicon Valley, Part 6
June 16, 2006 – 7:10 pm
In addition to Paul Graham’s take and David Janes’ take, be sure to read this blog entry by one of my tech evangelist role models, Mr. Guy Kawasaki. He wrote an article titled How to Kick Silicon Valley’s Butt, which are three lists of ways to turn your own town into a high-tech hub:
Stuff You [...]
On Becoming Silicon Valley, Part 5
June 16, 2006 – 6:31 pm
I got a lot of interesting responses to the How to be Silicon Valley article I wrote last month in the comments to that article, via email and in real-life face-to-face conversation. The article pointed to Paul Graham’s article of the same title, in which he talked about how it might be possible for a [...]
Suit-Friendly Articles on "The Farm"
October 31, 2005 – 5:15 pm
There’s more to being a programmer than just programming: a lot of the job involves “managing up”. I do it with Boss Ross, Boss Ross does it with his Boss Noss,
and Boss Ross’ Boss Noss does it with the Illuminati/Mason/Alien
Conspiratorial Triumvirate, often with a suitable sacrificial goat and
a PowerPoint [...]
What’s Up at Tucows
August 31, 2005 – 3:28 pm
I
thought I’d use an old “Tucows Games” graphic to introduce this entry,
which is, as you might have guessed, about my place of employment,
Tucows Inc.
Exercising Our Options
The announcement was made yesterday, but in case you hadn’t yet heard, I’ll repeat it here:
Tucows Inc. completes closing of over-allotment option
[...]
How Things Are
August 24, 2005 – 5:30 pm
It’s a gorgeous and sunny-but-cool day here in Accordion City, and although there’s lots to do at work, things are going nicely both in terms of my own productivity and today’s trading…
Elliot’s Photo
August 12, 2005 – 8:18 pm
In the comments to this entry, faithful Accordion Guy reader and my boss’ boss, Elliot Noss writes:
ok, the way you cropped the photo of me the slide looks like it says
“always need capital” on the bottom. that was NOT what it said!
the fact that I look like I am kind of [...]
In Which Our Hero Pimp-Slaps an Economist
July 27, 2005 – 3:13 pm
One of the best ways to get up my nose is to accuse me of not knowing
what I’m talking about. This happens in my comments once in a blue
moon, and I usually have to become the commenter’s Dad and “take him or
her to school in the car of pain”. [...]
A Truly 21st Century Job: Cuddle Party Facilitator
July 22, 2005 – 5:16 pm
Around 1985, when I was in high school, I caught a lecture at U of T by
a futurist who was talking about careers in the 21st century. He talked
about jobs that already existed at the time — such as computer
programming and biomedical engineering — but he also made some
[...]
