Let me start by confessing something: before I became a manager, I didn’t pay much attention to titles and levels. I’d get promoted from one title to another, but I never looked at how my employer defined each title, and…

When I first stepped into a management role about 10 years ago, one of the first and hardest changes that I had to deal with was drowning in meetings. I was lucky to start managing at a medium size company…

This update to my Zimbra Calendar sync application has been long coming, mainly because I didn’t have time to work on the app after I moved from Zimbra to Cloudera and I stopped using Zimbra for my work email and…

I attended a very good meetup about distributed teams today and I thought I’d share some takeaways. The meetup was organized by San Francisco Engineering Leadership Community , which has been putting together surprisingly good panels and audiences lately. Anyway, here are…

One morning I was chatting with my wife on Facebook Messenger when suddenly messages stopped coming through. My Messenger app started blinking green and yellow frantically trying to connect and being kicked out every second or two. “Network problem” — I thought…

For years, Zimbra called itself open source, but in reality it, all it did, was to published released code dumps from time to time. Many attempts to make outside code contributions simple have been killed by various owning entities (Yahoo, VMWare, Telligent) and…

This week I experimented with paying to people on Fiverr for sharing my Facebook page. Two people shared Gotit.media Facebook page page on their personal pages, one person shared it on his own fan page and another person shared in a…

I didn’t really need a 3G sim card at any time during our trek in Himalayas, because there was always wifi available to check email once every couple of days and I did not want to be online any more often.…

Prop 51 I am voting “yes”, because leaving school funding to local governments increases segregation and enforces the circumstances that lock people into the SES that they are born into. Prop 53 Perhaps, this adds more bureaucracy, however, I think that…

Here is the list of California props that I am voting against this year. Prop 52 After having read the text of the measure as well as arguments on both sides I am pretty sure that the funds collected from this…