Blog from the Loft

I never thought of Boston as a hot area for mobile phone and service vendors. That would be NYC. Many of the the mail order, unlocking, global GSM phones are based NYC. Almost by luck I ran into this little kiosk shop at Boston’s Prudential Mall — Warlox Wireless. Evan, probably the owner, handles unlocking [...]

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Reading Kathy Sierra’s post on How to be an expert reminds me of my priactising Tai Chi. I do and teach Tai Chi. I am by no mean an expert. Far from it, I learn something new every time I do it or teach it. From a non practitioner’s POV, Tai Chi may seems slow [...]

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In Genuine Curiosity’s Incompetence is wonderful post, he discuss the four stages of learning model. A person goes from unconsciously incompetent to consciously incompetent to consciously competent and finally to unconsciously competent. This mirrors one of my analysis on hiring people. I learn this from somewhere but I forgot where:
You can draw up a [...]

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I use basecamp. I like basecamp. I like the 37Signal designs. I read their blog. They are certainly pioneer in the newly revitalized ASP + Web2.0 biz.
But I also find basecamp inadequate, as a paid user. Specifically:

While it is nice that the include their writeboard function in basecamp, it is not integrated. If you want [...]

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