A number of people have already asked me what I think about the Apple Watch.
Thing is, none of the people asking me about the Apple Watch are in the tech community.
It already appears Apple has captured the general public’s interest in wearables like no previous company has yet to do. Whether they can translate that attention into a new product category like the iPod, iPhone and iPad before, or whether it never really takes off (can we say Ping?!?)…well, we’ll just have to see.
This week the site title is a little misleading.
No lesson learned. Just an observation and instead seeking lessons learned from the readers.
Last week I dove into a couple new software tools.
Omnigraffle is to Mac as Microsoft Visio is to Windows.
Wireframes, process flows, architecture diagrams, functional maps. And that’s barely scratching the surface of what Omnigraffle can do.
Sketch is your modern day alternative to Photoshop.
A design tool designed for Macs.
At a recent evening meetup a friend was describing to me three types of data analytics:
As you might guess analytics in this sense is a continuum. Start off with descriptive metrics and increase your analytics maturity by moving up the scale to predictive and eventually prescriptive numbers.
After the meetup I came home, a bit later than the usual weeknight. So as I walked into the house I was greeted by blast of stuffy hot Georgia summer air.
The Nest thermostat’s auto away had beat me again!
By now you’ve heard of The Ice Bucket challenge.
It’s very straight forward.
Friends, celebrities, politicians, business leaders and everyone in between are stepping up.
We’re coming up on our six month anniversary since BlueFletch moved into our new digs at Southern Dairies.
The overwhelming response has been positive so I wanted to share what we did, what’s worked well and what hasn’t.
You’re in enterprise SaaS sales and it’s Monday morning.
You want to start the week off on the right foot and jump into closing deals. But don’t. Resist the urge. Even though you’ll likely make some sales, you’ll regret it after.
Why? At Less Meeting we found that Monday was the worst day for us to make sales.
Walking away from the third annual Wearables Tech Expo last week I have to admit I felt disappointed.
Going into the week I was expecting to leave on Thursday:
But I didn’t see compelling examples of any of the above.
Lately I’ve been traveling a fair amount and have developed an effective mobile travel kit. If you’re looking for ideas for your next trip – business or pleasure – scroll through this list and it may spark an idea or two.
Tech need #1 when traveling is far and away power (with connectivity in some form coming in #2). Belkin’s Mini Surge Protector and Charger has saved me countless times.
Ever searched for an outlet in an airport, only to find that the lone power outlet has both plugs taken? With the three plugs everyone will be glad to let you join in at the outlet, and then the two USB ports on top are icing on the cake. Continue reading
It’s been a little over a year since launching Lessons Learned from Less*.
Despite the efforts to avoid this blog becoming a time suck I’ve found that, well, it still takes a not insignificant time each week. This makes it worth asking myself if it’s worth it to keep going.
Here’s what I’ve accomplished in the past year. Disclaimer, this is not an analytics deep dive, just a quick & dirty to get a state of the state.
My goal is to write a post a week so that’s hitting the mark nearly 80% of the time. Not perfect, but I’m happy with that metric.
(re-reading this post I realized it’s worth adding that this is primarily for ‘work-ish’ conversations)
This past Sunday as I landed at Hartsfield and flipped my phone off of airplane mode I received a text reminding me something very important that I needed to do when I got to the office on Monday.
Seems normal, right?
The thing is, like anyone else I’m human and forget things, which left me with two options:
Neither are terrible inconveniences, but a slight pain nonetheless and if I’m not proactive enough about it run the risk of missing the task altogether, which would be the worst outcome.
