Monthly Archive for February, 2009
These guys were taking a trip up-river on floating ice drifts on Sunday. I couldn’t help but imagine their intention, and Jillian and I spent a few amusing moments anthropomorphizing them. But the reality of a cold day and strong winds along the Hudson drew us back to the relative warmth of our walk through town.
I received this message while trying to cancel my MobileMe subscription yesterday. I am using Firefox 3.0.5. This is not the kind of experience that I am used to when dealing with Apple. Unfortunately, every nasty thing that I have heard or read about MobileMe was reinforced by this incident. If it wasn’t bad enough that I couldn’t find a use for the service, it simply isn’t better than other similar offerings out there for what I need, they put a technical glitch between me and my ability to cancel. Ouch!
I am glad that Eddie Cue is in charge of this project now. He proved an awesome (and tough) product manager/strategist when I worked with him and his team at MyPublisher. I am hopeful that he can steer MobileMe in the right direction.
I have been doing a lot of reflection over the last few days. Reflection is great for re-centering yourself in light of new information. Warning! Reflection is intoxicating. You can imagine all of the ways in which you can make things better, and there is no one around to stop you from drifting off into the ridiculous.
It gets dangerous when you convince yourself that you are doing something (which I have, many times). Reflection isn’t action. When I am using it to best advantage, it is an iterative activity. After each iteration, I share the results with someone I trust to give me honest feedback, and then I act on it. This helps me build a feedback loop which tests the quality of the thoughts that come out of my self-examination(s).
I guess I should be apologizing to thanking all of those folks I trust enough to annoy the crap out of with my ramblings.
Thanks.
