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Interrupt driven

As a technical consultant my work life is interrupt driven.  Long term projects are constantly put on pause to deal with urgent issues that require immediate attention. Today was different:  I forgot to take my cellphone to work.  Without my cellphone, I was not interrupted by text messages, twitter updates, brightkite posts, automated SMS alerts and phone calls.  A direct result of removing these interrupts, a highly productive morning.  This unintentional experiment has reinforced the value...

Insanity of the small business

Last week we lost a large chunk of revenue when a client switched to a new services provider.  Today, it appears that client may be coming back into the fold with a big project in tow.  Also, we received a PO from a new client and a surprise opportunity just came our way. In the span of 24 hours these new opportunities grew to be approximately 1/4 of the revenue we did in all of 2007. We could not have predicted any of this and none of it is certain.  The swings in potential revenue wreck ...