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More Books Coming!

After two years working on our first book, Leading and Managing in Silicon Valley, we’ve got two more books coming out this summer alone! Excellent Leader is quite busy.  First up is Interstices by Mark Moulton, which collects forty years of his poetry writing. These are truly special and memorable poems, and it’s got a [...]

Electronic Schoolbooks in California

By now you probably heard this story about how California may be the first state to go for electronic math and science textbooks. Given how important California is to the textbook market, this will definitely do interesting things to the market for kindle-like devices. Now if they were only in color, we could do art [...]

Notes on social networking as a marketing tool

Commonwealth Club meetings are never ending source of interesting ideas.  This time I went to a session on the use of social networking by InForum group, hosted by Sarah Lacy. It focused on practical ideas for small businesses. Some interesting points that came out of were:

Make Google be priority #1 Make sure google can [...]

Version splitting in Symfony

So I’m building this website for Art In Action, and it’s all done in symfony. I really love symfony, because it makes everything so clean and structured, and one can be so productive. The admin generator is a lovely thing – I discovered how to make an entire authoring system out of it, and I’ve [...]

Chevron vs Sierra Club at Commonwealth Club

June 10 I listened to Dave O’Reilly, CEO of Chevron and Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club in conversation with Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. It was quite a circus, sold out, tv cameras and protestors [...]

Return of the MOW Equipment

It’s time for another walk to our favorite siding off the Dumbarton line in Menlo Park. Today we had some new arrivals, courtesy of Uncle Pete. They just showed up last Friday. When they came in, it was decided that this little guy had to come off the track. Notice the chain drive and [...]