My interests
LinkedIn asked me to list my interests. I got carried away, and wrote more than what they allow. So I’m posting the list here:
Interests: personality factors, small teams, the impact of cash flow, profit and loss, burn rates, morale, public rhetoric, private rhetoric, secrecy versus transparency, trust versus distrust, the impact of communication mediums – telephone or email or chat or face-to-face, the impact of age on the opportunity costs of startups, the impact of health on the marginal utility of wealth, the impact of ambition on life choices, personal boundaries and the limits of people’s work-related commitments, emotional resistance to change, the root causes of passive aggressive sabotage by employees, the impact of wealthy childhoods on would-be entrepreneurs, the difference between angel investors and inexperienced entrepreneurs, delusional leadership, knowledge of scarcity and its effect on leadership style, how to fire bad employees, how to layoff good employees, how to limit the damage done by bad consultants or disgruntled employees, the uses of free online services, tools for organizing small teams, the appropriate use of paper as a communication tool, the importance of visual data, guessing the market for video entertainment, guessing the market for video for any particular niche, estimating the value of fuzzy company attributes such as brand image, rigorous study of marketing strategies – what really works, the importance of setting expectations, recovering from failure, mitigating risk, the ethics of spending other people’s money, the overlap of friendship networks with work networks, agile programming, agile management, fast creation of new supply chains, agile virtual enterprise creation, the legal basis of obligations and verbal promises after fast team creation, anger management among team members, keeping criticism constructive, the appropriate use of “I” statements, engineering reward systems that inspire desired output, conversational marketing, building win-win agreements that really are win-win, recognition of the power of circumstance, honesty about the importance of luck, clarity in the enunciation of goals, clarity in the assignment of responsibilities, humility in assessing the limits of one’s skills, acknowledgment of personal limits, the ethical obligation of educating clients about the high possibility of failure, assessing the appropriate use of outside consultants, creating productive brainstorming sessions, limiting creative brainstorming before it becomes an excessive waste of time, PHP, JavaFX, Symfony
