Good Tech, Bad Tech

The more I have time to think about it, the more I know I that I prefer to work in customer-facing roles.  Maybe it’s a hero complex.  Or, maybe it’s all that empathy I inherited from my mother.  That is, I really do like to make people’s lives with computers better… and I like to see the results of my work… and not just vicariously through my boss but face to face with the client who will be using it.

Given that I’m not a huge fan of all the time computers have wasted in my life, perhaps this need to help others is just my way of paying penance for all that waste — a chance to take some of those skills absorbed during that wasted time and use them to reduce the bad effects of computing and technology on other people’s time.

Shifting Into Mobile

Today I started work at a new job, in a new direction, with Mobiquity.  As such, I’m about to take a deep dive into what my new employer says is the 5th major technology wave: mobile.  Coming from an enterprise background of relational database architecture and full-stack development, it will be an intriguing shift in my life to see how the past best practices of enterprise data management translates into leveraging the micro data universes contained in our mobile devices and the networks that connect them.