I've navigated five technology system transitions across 30 years. Now I work with revenue-stage SaaS CEOs on the AI transition - privately, as a thinking partner, with no agenda but theirs.
Engineering, product, executive - three disciplines, full depth. Chief architect. VP Product. CPO. CPTO. CEO. Four exits across every stage.
Most advisors see one slice - technical, product, or business. Three disciplines in full depth makes it possible to hold all of them simultaneously, without losing resolution when the conversation moves between them.
The CEOs I work with have read everything worth reading. The gap isn't information — it's that none of it maps onto their specific situation, and they've run out of people who can help make that translation without an agenda.
MacFuse - Sweet
Ok - so maybe it’s a sign of just how much a shiny-gadget-geek I am, but I love what’s possible with MacFuse (and MacFusion). For example, I have an existing website (at omnis.com) that doesn’t have a ssh account, so the only way to deploy / work on what’s there is via FTP. So when I need to work on it, I have to use FTP to push & pull code & data, but I don’t do it that often - so I’d have to right FTP client to do bulk transfer was a pain, etc. So now, turn on ftpfs via MacFuse and woila (as my 4 yr old says) - there’s the shooting match. Now, it’s an easy matter to bring it all back down locally, put in SVN (as it should have been years ago) and re-deploy to my new account at dreamhost.
No new functionality, just a greater ease of use - esp. since my muscle memory knows how to use either shell or finder interfaces to work with files.
Sophie, Squeak, Croquet
There seems to be more and more instances of platforms appearing which raise the level at which people can create, manipulate and share rich content in a rich context.
Sophie appears to be another interesting entry, in addition to Croquet and the etoys work in Squeak.
TVShows
Great idea - how to get TV shows, not how to see a bunch of randomly named bittorrent files. Another “so obvious after I saw it” moment. http://tvshows.sourceforge.net/ (thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog www.tuaw.com/2007/04/1…)