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A while ago a followed a link to an interesting e-book titled "Time Management for Creative People" by Mark McGuinness. I quickly printed a copy for reading at home and dropped it into the briefcase. Several weeks later (so much for time management), I finally read it last night and found a nice set of suggestions and ideas for better... (more)

Big news at Yahoo HQ today! (No, it’s not the global rollout of the new Yahoo! Mail.) After 3 1/2 years on the Messenger team, I’ve moved to the Platform Engineering team, managing the integration/solutions engineering team. It’s a small team now, but will be growing. Coincident with joining this team, we all moved into a new bullpen cube arrangement.... (more)

Guy Kawasaki has a great piece today titled Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn’t Know Who to Ask: Many people ask me for advice about getting a job in Silicon Valley, so here’s the inside scoop. Not everyone will agree with this advice, and some will outright deny what I’m saying, but... (more)

For some reason only the market knows, Yahoo stock just barely cracked $40 today! Apparently this is a 5-year high for the stock. Well, it’s not as hot as GOOG, but I’ll take it!... (more)

Today marks my 1-year anniversary of joining Yahoo to work on the Messenger team. I should probably chart my blog postings during that time to see how they’ve slowed — last year I had a better balance between work and personal time but in 2005 it’s really swung towards work. On the plus side, it’s good to be working for... (more)

Today I started my next career adventure. After working for palmOne for over 5 years, I've switched gears and am now working at Yahoo! managing part of the Yahoo! Messenger client engineering team. Like my work on Palm Desktop software, the Messenger product is a high-visibility consumer desktop application. The addition of being a network-connected application will make this even... (more)

I try to make it a point to update my resume on a regular basis. I'm not currently looking for work, but if I could just update it as I go along, it seems like it would be easier. But....updating a resume is really a pain. This time I tried something different by treating it more like a conversation, starting with the old stuff (school, first job, etc.) and end with what I'm doing now. If someone wants the gory details with all the right buzzwords, the full resume will need to be updated. In the meantime, if someone just wants to know what I do (and what I've done), this form should be perfect. (more)