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Emergence after, or small steps forward to a new normal

Today I am meeting a former boss (and friend before she was my boss) for lunch. This is a rescheduled lunch from a few weeks back, it is…

Jun 30, 2021

Emergence after, or small steps forward to a new normal

Jun 30, 2021

Alternatives to the Binary

All too often we are presented with two seemingly binary choices with an often unspoken assumption that these two choices are the only…

Feb 26

Alternatives to the Binary

Feb 26

The second best…

A short post — I read a social media post about a past US Olympian who qualified for the Olympics in the half-pipe skiing by the mechanism…

Jul 25, 2024

Jul 25, 2024

Technical Operating Committees for Business

Early in my career I was my boss’s boss. This sounds odd and indeed it was unusual, but it was part of a management process at one of the…

Jun 28, 2024

A curvy and gnarled tree trunk

Jun 28, 2024

The factory, owned by the workers

In high school I took a lot of philosophy classes. First a year long (amazing) survey of Philosophy, taught by Dr Stephen Goldberg (yes, he…

Oct 6, 2023

Oct 6, 2023

The future is indeterminate or why tech needs philosophers

We can not, in the present, know the future. We can guess, we can predict, we can try to shape it, but we will always get it wrong.

Oct 5, 2023

Oct 5, 2023

Training vs Patterns — a story about machine learning, AI and hype

In 2000 (yes 23 years ago) in a case of really bad timing (the irony of that will become apparent) I founded my first startup, JigZaw Inc…

Aug 14, 2023

Aug 14, 2023

On open tabs on and offline

How many open tabs do you have right now?

May 2, 2022

Tab Groups showing 95 open tabs

May 2, 2022

Radical Simplicity

Yesterday on Twitter I retweeted a link to a fantastic article that anyone building a company or product should read.

Apr 13, 2022

Apr 13, 2022

It is just a watch

I close my eyes and see him, watch on his wrist, in a suit and tie, with a briefcase chained to his arm as he waits at the airport in the…

Aug 20, 2021

It is just a watch

Aug 20, 2021

Shannon Clark

Shannon Clark

Contract CTO/COO/Product manager, San Jose CA, Founder, Event Organizer, Facilitator, Writer, Chef, Fan, Adviser to startups, Geek, Gamer, DM, (He, him)

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