by Tom | Nov 26, 2009 | Business, Personal
What kind of freelancer are you? I’m not sure I fit into any category, so maybe I’m not a freelancer?
by Tom | Nov 26, 2009 | Business, IT
Don’t just roll the dice. Some sensible reflections on how to approach software pricing. Seems like a lot of people just guess.
by Tom | Nov 20, 2009 | Business
Gladwell has a think piece (unusually for him, not very evidence-based) which attributes the crunch to the cocksure nature of the players on Wall Street.
by Tom | Nov 17, 2009 | Business, Government, Reading
Surowiecki has a couple of articles looking at banking and debt. He wonders if the crisis has meant that banks have become bigger, or at least the ones that we feel comfortable using. Seperately, he suggests (and I think rightly) that we are predisposed to use debt...
by Tom | Nov 13, 2009 | Business
I think the nastiest comment I took out of the Times’ Goldman article was the seeming attempt to square: “We are doing moral, valuable work” and “if you don’t like what we’re doing, we could just do it elsewhere”. It just...
by Tom | Nov 10, 2009 | Business, Government
Some useful pointers to how Twitter can fail for businesses. There are lessons here for everyone: you need a voice / a viewpoint to work well in any conversation. A list of sale items is a catalogue, not an advert. So despite the author’s negative conclusion, I...