so saturday i did the irresponsible thing and didn’t go to class; it’s snowed for 3 days straight here in Utah. so you could say the responsible thing was to make use of God’s given blessings. that i did and headed up to Sundance w/ my brother and a friend to catch some freshies and [...]
it’s official, i’m now spending my days as a billy w/ the rest of goats at backcountry.com. like every new kid i spent my first week in gearhead training; a five day crash course in customer service and the labyrinth that is inventory mgmt. by the end of the week my trainers (shawn & angela) had me completing customer tickets, tracking order, handling miss-ships, refunds, exchanges and even chatting w/ customers about gear. pretty sweet! i have a profound appreciation w/ the frontline troops and the warehouse dudes.
the last month of my life i’ve been head down in my studies, so i was probably the last to find out lawrence lessig is going offline w/ his creative commons blog after 7 years and 1753 posts. lessig has done a tremendous job evangelizing the diminishing returns of the current copy right and patent [...]
i’m working on an essay for Constitution Day @ UVU, thus, i’m putting the creative commons license on my blog as a reference. i really wish google docs would create a CC add-in. i’ll post the essay this weekend when i’m done. Constitution Day is thursday september 17, 2009. Hidden Diamonds, No More Cats and [...]
you wanna go to law school? yeah, well you’ll need to take the lsat. this is the standard acceptance exam for law school entrance. the basics are these: it’s scored between 120 and 180 (similar to other standardized test like the SAT; just drop the 1 and add a zero). if you are wondering a [...]
It happened a few weeks ago; I’ve been hiding under the radar until now, but my days at Decho/Mozy are over. I have to say at the time leaving felt great! And now … well it still feels great Mozy was a great place to work!! I can’t say enough about the guys I worked [...]
when i got to mozy as employe number forty-something i often walked past josh’s office waiting for him to pull me into his office and ask me who the hell i was; this never happened.
i learned a lot of little things from josh, but i also learned one really big thing.
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if someone asked me in an interview (or if i was asking an interview candidate) i would say you are a technical lobbyist. like a lobbyist on Capitol Hill your job is to influence, communicate, be a knowledge expert, coral resources and have an ever evolving plan to execute on your objectives. only difference: you grease palms w/ executives instead of senators and congressman, you trust engineers instead of staffers to get things done and you are paid by the institution instead of a client.
