Jeffrey McManus

Attention, Masters of Business Administration of Corporate America:
Quit using the word ‘learnings’. It makes you sound really stupid. The word you really want is ‘lessons’.
Your pal,
Jeffrey

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I was looking up directions on Yahoo Maps last night (last-minute driver’s license renewal, blah). While looking at the map I noticed that Yahoo Maps thinks there’s a neighborhood in SF called “Doelger City”. A little Googling reveals that at one point, the Sunset district was mostly built by a guy named Doelger and at [...]

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I had some sadness yesterday when I went out to the parking lot and my beloved Cherokee wouldn’t start up.
I really hate it when my car breaks down. It’s really just a matter of inconvenience and money, but for some reason I get all bent out of shape about it. It could be that I [...]

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I like brainstorming. I have this tendency to be really critical in brainstorming sessions a lot of the time, but ultimately I think that the best brainstorming sessions happen when participants try to come up with both the best idea and the worst idea. I think I may have accomplished this when we recently [...]

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Tim O’Reilly at COMDEX last week: “The future is here, it just isn’t evenly-distributed yet.” (When I first heard him say this, I suspected he was quoting somebody, not to diminish Tim’s ability to be pithy, etc. The big Google-o-matic tells us that it’s from William Gibson, as the most excellent Cory Doctorow points out [...]

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Last week at Fry’s I picked up a teeny tiny $20 Targus optical mouse for use with laptops, on planes, etc. I carry it around with me in my bag. The really cool thing about the mouse that I didn’t realize until I got it out of the box, though, is the fact that the [...]

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