Name: Andrew Savikas
Date registered: September 3, 2010
URL: http://andrewsavikas.com
Feb
01
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction. By 150, it’s clear that that’s not going to scale, and you’ve got to find some way to keep everybody going in… Continue reading »
Jan
22
Airline miles are now a currency like any other, legal tender not just in Airworld but in the economy of flat-screen TVs, washing machines, and even diamond rings. There are an estimated 17 trillion miles in circulation right now, which would get you two-thirds of the way to Alpha Centauri. At their nominal exchange rate… Continue reading »
Jan
20
As it turns out, it’s not even just business founders. Mike Meyers said “I still believe that at any time the No-Talent Police will come and arrest me.” Jodie Foster said “I thought it [winning the Oscar] was a fluke. The same way as when I walked on the campus at Yale. I thought everybody… Continue reading »
Jan
16
Avoid the use of punctuation, such as periods and commas. www22.verizon.com If you need to add a link to “tips on entering your address” on a web form, then there’s something seriously wrong with whatever software is processing that data. Could you imagine if Google Maps had “tips for entering your address?”
Jan
14
The same happens when gathering requirements for a new software project, and very few customers understand that they cannot possibly know what they need the computer to do for them until they’ve seen how it works. The developer must be part of the requirements discovery process, and everyone must be aware that the discovery phase… Continue reading »
Jan
12
“And you know what? He’s probably right. As Johnson [heh-heh] himself noted, “the adult entertainment industry has driven adoption of every significant new entertainment delivery system” for decades–most notably it’s charged with causing VHS to win the old VHS-vs.-Betamax video tape format wars in the 1980′s. It’s been key in the cable TV industry too,… Continue reading »
Jan
05
The task for this week? Find and clean up all those digital profiles that arelurking out there on the Internet. Chances are, you haven’t ever really given it much thought, but you might have as many as twenty profiles collecting cobwebs in cyberspace. When someone finds you, do you want them to see outdated photos,… Continue reading »
Dec
27
What’s so great about being Executive Platinum? A lot, frankly. As an E.P., I outrank other passengers for first-class upgrades on routes in North and Central America. The upgrades are free for E.P.’s, and seem to come through on about 90 percent of my flights. First class brings a bigger seat, a power outlet for… Continue reading »
Dec
26
P uzzles, anchors, stars, and plowhorses; those are a few of the terms consultants now use when assembling a menu (which is as much an advertisement as anything else). “A star is a popular, high-profit item—in other words, an item for which customers are willing to pay a good deal more than it costs to… Continue reading »