Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.
Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology. . . and you can build software then, around the user.
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey. ' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.