At TicketCity we’re heavily invested in Google’s advertising products, so I’ve been exploring Google Cloud Platform. The marketplace has been running on AWS, but with such simple integration between Google’s ad tools and Cloud, I wanted to take a more thorough look at GCP and see how it compares to AWS.
I’ve always thought the great promise of “the cloud” was democratization of technology. A single developer can, for very low cost, tap into tremendous resources.
Happy to announce I’ve accepted a role as VP of Operations at TicketCity! After my first full week, I am really impressed with the team and systems that go into powering a 9-figure, 30%+ CAGR ecommerce marketplace. Technology, customer service, fraud– all done in-house. What is more impressive than the operation are the people on the team. TicketCity was founded in 1990 (a pre-Internet business) and many folks on the team have been with the company more than a decade.
The thing about the altMBA is that you are forever changed by the experience.
The last four week have been exciting, eye-opening and difficult, all at the same time. It is difficult to articulate the difference, but I can tell that I think differently about things now. It is almost like rewiring your brain; process, assumptions, techniques are all different.
I’m amazed at the folks who have worked full-time during the course, because the time commitment is significant.
Comparably has an interesting set of survey results on which benefits (excluding healthcare) are most important.
I was most interested in what I see as a change in work-life balance over time. Here’s what I saw, in general:
Importance of retirement (401k contribution) increases as we get older Need for flexibility peaks during the middle of our careers Vacation policy becomes less important as we get older If you think about the typical life pattern, these all seem to make sense.
“Catalytic coaching is literally a system where you learn to say to somebody’s face the kind of thing you’d say about him more comfortably behind their back for the benefit of the organization as well as the benefit of that individual.” (via RapidLearning Institute)
That moment you start working on your personal computer after you quit your job and you keep trying to login with your old work password.
I’ve worked at Open Mortgage for 2,644 days. Today is my last.
