"Personal branding" is just a fancy way of saying "marketing yourself".
Most geeks aren't fans of marketing. They tend to prefer unambiguous technical specifications and logical arguments to the artificiality and cheap tricks they perceive as bein...
Views: 5660 | 7 Comments » | posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: branding, geeks, marketing
I've often heard it said by those who've had to manage geeks (or want to have positive interactions with them) that they find that geeks have little respect for those outside their field — in particular for management and for those that perform non...
Views: 208 | 3 Comments » | posted on Monday, July 21st, 2008 | Tags: geeks, management, startup, synthasite
I started writing a post on how to understand how respect works with developers, that quickly expanded to cover other technology worker types as "passionate technology people". Which is rather unwieldy a term to be throwing around throughout a post ...
Views: 450 | 6 Comments » | posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008 | Tags: employees, geekdinner, geeks, technology
It's really hard to summarise the experience of a first visit to San Francisco, assuming you're at least somewhat a technology geek. San Francisco (and by that, one generally means the San Francisco Bay Area) is modern technology's birthplace and st...
Views: 331 | 2 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | Tags: geekdinner, starcamp, start ups, technology
