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Autodesk
What's with the weird profile picture?
When did profile pictures become a thing? I don’t remember needing a profile picture for anything before I joined Autodesk in 2007. Any collaboration software you used just needed a user name and password. Maybe your real name if it was particularly “user friendly”. On my first day in what was now an Autodesk office, the facilities manager came round with a cheap digital camera taking everyone’s picture. “Don’t worry”, they said, “it’s for your badge and your profile. You can change it later”.
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Blog
Mac
Setting up my Mac for local blog development
I intend to cover a variety of topics here. For example, deep thinking about industry trends and startup ideas, juicy gossip from my days at Autodesk or lab journal entries documenting my progress. Full disclosure - there’s no deep thinking or juicy gossip today.
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Blog
Autodesk
What is The Candid Startup anyway?
The Candid Startup started as a joke. I was always amused by the people that leave Autodesk for a “Stealth Startup”. There’s something a little arrogant in thinking that your idea is so ground breaking, so revolutionary, so original that you have to keep it secret. It doesn’t say much for your abilities that you worry that anyone else that hears your idea will be able to implement it better than you can.
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Blog
just setting up my blg
With apologies to Jack Dorsey