Max Beatty

I recently dis­abled com­ments on an old post called “Bid­Fire: Decep­tively Easy To Get Burned” because all of the com­ments were sense­less pos­i­tive reviews for Bid­Fire and didn’t con­tribute to the dis­cus­sion about the ser­vice in my opin­ion. To put it in per­spec­tive, the 70 com­ments on that one arti­cle accounts for close to 25% […]

Last week con­cluded my first three months at my first job out of col­lege. Accen­ture has been great! I’ve learned a lot, met a lot of great peo­ple, and am excited about the career ahead of me.

A habit is a recur­rent, often uncon­scious pat­tern of behav­ior that is acquired through fre­quent rep­e­ti­tion. I’m a con­sul­tant so my job is rarely the same, and I love that.  Tonight, I real­ized I have a ter­ri­ble unique habit for first days. I break most of the rules and still man­age to succeed.

After Jim Bum­gard­ner’s blog post Mon­day con­fess­ing to cheat­ing on Foursquare and sub­se­quent LA Times cov­er­age, I think Foursquare will be address­ing their service’s secu­rity imme­di­ately. For those of you who don’t know, Foursquare is a loca­tion based social net­work that incor­po­rates gam­ing ele­ments. Bum­gard­ner used Foursquare’s 3 month old API to become mayor the […]

I’ve been trav­el­ing the past two weeks for work and noticed some small con­ve­niences that air­lines, hotels, and rental car com­pa­nies have pro­vided and a lot of oppor­tu­ni­ties they have to go the extra mile for their cus­tomers with­out a lot of effort.