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Travel: Blowing Rock, NC

January 14, 2020September 26, 2024 paschmann

Smile

January 12, 2020May 3, 2020 paschmann

”It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.”

MBA: WeDo Technologies Strategy Study

January 8, 2020November 1, 2023 paschmann

WEDO is a EBA software/platform company

WeDo Consulting started in 2001

Spinoff from Portuguese Optimus which was a telecom company

In 2004 WeDo had grown to 5 countries with annual revenues of Eur20 million and 270 employees

Products included RAID for telecoms – monitored billing and invoicing for abnormalities and triggered alerts and warnings when something did not look right. This allowed the company to react verus wait until the month end reporting was done

Company made various acquisitions to protect its market share and reduce competition

In 2010 the company made a strategic decision to innovate their product using internal funds

To protect market share
Expand their market to retail, fi, etc.
Develop new capabilities

Bookmark: Spark Joy in your Products

January 6, 2020November 1, 2023 paschmann

Great resource for adding design flair and style to your apps or products: https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy

Cellular Automata

January 6, 2020October 31, 2023 paschmann

Cellular Automata: Concept of a product which creates itself and not only creates itself but improves its own quality.

Travel: Milan, Italy

January 5, 2020November 4, 2023 paschmann

Bookmark: Lucid Index

January 2, 2020November 1, 2023 paschmann

This is a really awesome curated/categorized list of open source and self hosted software packages. Forget SaaS … “On-premise” is the new cool.

https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted

No longer a valid source, but this is a good alternative: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Travel: Lyon, Annecy, France & Geneva, Switzerland

January 2, 2020November 4, 2023 paschmann

Nike Ad

January 1, 2020January 19, 2020 paschmann

Having two young girls, this Nike ad really resonated with me … #2019inReview #advertising #motivation #idol #beyourownidol #nike? pic.twitter.com/CVTCOJOlvR
— Paul Aschmann (@paups) January 1, 2020

Good Reminder

January 1, 2020October 31, 2023 paschmann

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman