This is Stefan Weitz. He’s one of the most araldite speakers I’ve heard from Microsoft since the Bill.
Sure he’s a “geek”, but who would you rather have? A bad tempered accountant in a suit, or someone genuinely enthusiastic about what he does and he thinks he can help people?
Add to that araldite communication and does [...]

I was using RAIDSEARCH to look through my hard drive for past banner ads of my own stuff.
I was branding a piece of viral software and it allowed me to add some of my own banners to it.
But something soon became apparent.

I just realised that today was the 13th!
Despite it not being a Friday, and the fact I am not really superstitious, I normally stay low on a 13th, because quite often it goes wrong. Most likely it is because I am waiting and looking for it to go wrong, but that doesn’t change the facts. [...]

Another strange weekend as I desperately search for purpose and meaning in my life..
Suddenly something came to me.

I don’t know about you, as you haven’t told me yet, but some days even a moderately simple task opens up a big can of worms. What should have been a simple product idea, becomes a life challenging quest for answers.
OK maybe I’m exaggerating very slightly, but here’s how it goes.

Many of us constantly wrestle with ourselves. And often we beat ourselves up over our “lack of focus”. Well I do anyway, even if you won’t admit it. People who have a natural straight line vision will criticise us for it. And many “advisers” will tell us the way to achieve more success (or any [...]