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Sell Your Boss On A Research Repository
Did an article at https://blog.handrailux.com/sell-your-boss-on-a-research-repository/ on selling your boss on a Research Repository. It starts off like: A research repository is a single place to keep all your user research. At Handrail, we not only store research. We also give people valuable tools for planning research, collecting data, performing analysis, and surfacing insights. While most people doing research clearly see the value in a repository, selling upstream can be a challenge. There are always competing priorities within organizations for budgets and other resources. It can be hard to compete with those that have more visibility to leadership and influence over budgets. But it can definitely be done! -Charles Edge If…
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Bootstrappers Blog: Let’s Not Forget To Take Care Of Ourselves
As we start to re-open offices and get back to normal (or find a new normal), there’s going to be a lot of new pressure applied here and there. Everyone in an early stage startup is already constantly busy. We bounce between so many different roles. We have what seems like thousands of things going on in life and work. We have to get sales and marketing running. We have to get that new feature committed. We have to raise money to keep the lights on. We have to get a better process to merge code. We have to… Ugh. It just never ends. On top of that maybe we…
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The History Of Computing: Konrad Zuse
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Episode 166 of the MacAdmins Podcast: Of Rubber Chickens with Bill Smith
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Disable Automatic Software Update Downloads
I was on the phone with someone yesterday that has a number of distributed Macs in offices with low bandwidth. So they need to control when updates are downloaded and installed because they can fail or cause issues with other systems when they download automatically. This option is great for home use but can be challenging in larger environments. So it can be disabled with the following command, which creates an AutomaticDownload key in the com.apple.SoftwareUpdate defaults domain and sets it to FALSE: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate AutomaticDownload -boolean FALSE Once machines return to areas with better bandwidth or this isn’t a need it can then be re-enabled by using…
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The History Of Computing: The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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Bootstrappers Blog: Content Creation for Early Stage Startups
There’s no doubt that content is a great way to attract potential customers to our sites. There’s also no doubt that the right kind of content can drive the right kind of customers. But really, most any content is good content. It can be challenging for early stage startups to take the time to focus on generating content. There are so many things pulling at us. Many a founder will already be well versed in talking to the audience that our products are targeted at. So we’re going to be able to communicate with our customers at their level and with depth, sincerity, and in a way that resonates. With…
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Jamf After Dark: Scaling Jamf In Schools
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Episode 165 of the MacAdmins Podcast: Catalina Adoption with Eric Holtam