Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Darrin Mourer
SEs are in the “wonderful” position of having to speak to a wide variety of customer types from the server room to the board room. Whether it is fair or not, you are judged quite quickly and significantly based on your diction. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some great SEs, managers, and reps [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Darrin Mourer
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
MIT has about 1800 of their courses recorded and viewable online. For free.
To me this is a great way to help round out your education in your spare time and also pursue additional knowledge in areas that can help advance your career, such as business or management courses.
I’m typically a bigger fan of book learning [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Darrin Mourer
I know I owe everyone some book reviews, though I’ve been so busy in other matters that those will have to wait. In the mean time, I do want to keep things rolling so here is a thought for the day based on recent experience.
Yesterday I had to cancel two home-based services, my internet access [...]
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