by John Macdonald | May 1, 2024 | The250
This place has a high cost of living. That place has a low cost of living. Will you get a cost of living raise? We talk about the cost of living in terms of financials: rent and real estate, milk and eggs, taxes and healthcare,...
by John Macdonald | Apr 30, 2024 | The250
Most of us in the western world spend most of our time dancing around the top of Maslow’s Pyramid. Let’s face it: a blog like this never exists unless I have the privilege of spending a good chunk of my time bouncing between...
by John Macdonald | Apr 29, 2024 | The250
Ask an engineer from the tech industry (software or hardware) what the best moment in their career was, and likely the story will sound like this: We got the prototypes back from the manufacturer the day after Christmas around lunchtime. We had to ship it on the...
by John Macdonald | Apr 28, 2024 | The250
“Yo, wait! How did you do that? What was that command?” It was sometime in the early-90’s at Lockheed. I was looking over my colleague Jim’s shoulder as he whirled his way around the command line on his Sun...
by John Macdonald | Apr 27, 2024 | The250
I’m not a master marketer. I make the things. But what I know about marketing is that the magic comes down to: Is your idea worth sharing? You can develop the perfect strategy. You can build out an amazing library of content. You can hire...
