Comments Off on Today’s Reading Distractions (mid-2025)

These are my BlueSky posts for the past 3 months for “today’s reading distraction”

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Comments Off on Another startup nightmare: by Penny Kim

An excellent “experience story” about a nightmare startup:

“I Got Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup” (Penny Kim):  Read more »

Comments Off on Moving a Convention from North Carolina, because of a discriminatory, hateful law

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Comments Off on Commissions: Apples, Oranges, Potatoes & Spam

Today, a master agency complained that our commission percentages don’t match the high rates offered by some other vendors. My response:

Yes, our commission percentages don’t look impressive when compared to other vendors who sell different services, and others whose channel programs are designed quite differently. Read more »

Comments Off on Fake USB Flash Drives (eBay)

There are Bad People out there, who sell USB flash drives designed to show fake capacity values.

Over the past year, I’ve purchased a few dozen USB flash drives, with capacities ranging from 8GB to 256GB.  Some were genuine; most were fakes. Read more »

Comments Off on Interesting LinkedIn Profile Skills (funny)

LinkedIn gives us the opportunity to list up to 50 “Skills” in our profiles, and until today I thought the most interesting and creative list of skills was in technology journalist Dan Tynan’s profile, which includes these:

Pole Dancing, Kitten Wrangling, snarkitude, Breathing, Sleep Deprivation, Prescience, Waffle Making, Navel Gazing, Confabulation, Sarcasm, Eating, and Sleep.

But today, I found Googler Todd Underwood’s profile, which includes:

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Comments Off on Unicorn Startups: The Rules Don’t Apply to Us

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