This is the kind of post only a true web/tech/entrepreneur geek could love.
Was just checking my “All Mail” in Gmail to see the last message I sent out when 1 of 10000 (messages that is) caught my eye. Keep in mind that I clean/filter my Gmail from garbage almost daily to keep it organized. That being said, just about all of those emails are legitimate client back and forth messages from the past couple of years, not to mention that many of those emails are actually conversations full of about 50-100 self-contained back and forth messages between clients (over 100 for sure) and myself.
Truly remarkable, a great marker in my career, and Google/Gmail has been the headquarters of almost all my business endeavors/communications from nearly the start. So, here’s to the next 10,000 emails in the next couple of years, I’ve come a long way, we’ll see how much more I can learn and accomplish by then.
Thanks, Bryan
(spelling/grammar/structure cleaned up from IM interview)
I was contacted by The Hartford Advocate Newspaper to do an interview about hengine on the subject of human search engines for this article The Searchers:
For just about as long as humans have existed we’ve used technology and innovation to create weapons, from sharpened rocks and spears to WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction). The question of whether violence, crime and war will remain in our future is probably certain as long as humans inhabit the Earth, but that isn’t what I’m talking about.
As popularized by Science Fiction films like the Matrix and Terminator, I am talking about the idea of technology advancing to the point where we give it too much control or lose control of it altogether. We already have a lot of dependencies on technology, not just in our social, domestic and working lives (internet, cell phones, washer and dryer, fridge, alarm clocks, vehicles), but for our very lives themselves.
A lot lately I’ve been noticing some increasing problems with the design industry. Mostly I would like to address the issues I’m seeing with clients (or potential clients) not wanting to sign on to projects in the standard/professional way, they are asking for work before pay and only paying if the work is satisfactory out of fear of risk.
