Archive | June, 2008

Wizardly wisdom

When ‘creativity’ = bad

I work with a lot of accounting-types in my day job, and a lot of them are up in arms with CMA’s new advertising campaign. They’re rebranding the designation, which is “Certified Management Accountants” to “Creative Accountants.” Now, many people mistrust accoutants. At the very least, they consider these people to be loveless number-crunching robots. [...]

On self-employment

Working for oneself is an incredible, exhausting, and rewarding experience. And it’s little gems like the one below, courtesy one of my partners, that makes the experience often gut-busting. Just when levity is needed, it arrives: Unless a huge show-stopper crops up, I want [the software] to be released by the end of the day. It’s [...]