JamieMagee

Tags: Team dynamics Wellness Work life

Andrea Howe comments on one of the magic yet often overlooked ingredients of business success.  The value of friendship applies equally to intra-company relationships as well as those across customer lines.

http://trustedadvisor.com/trustmatters/485/The-ROI-of-Business-Friendships

Posted by Jamie Magee At 1:57 PM Location Washington DC | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Work life

Paul Mooney showed me his if I showed him mine.

When I'm not at the HQ office in DC (I almost never am), I work here...


1 - 93% of the furniture budget went into the one chair I can sit in for more than 4 hours

2 - Thinkpad in a full dock, hidden under pile of unrecorded 2008 expense receipts as an anti-theft measure.  Never been stolen.  Due for a Mac replacement in Fall 2008.

3 - Dual monitors... Chat windows stay to the right.   Everything else to the left on a 20" 1600x1200 DVI (rotated with Portrait.com driver).  Webcam sits on top.

4 - "No wires allowed" desk with Bluetooth everything.  Love the Logitech DiNovo kit... has the Thinkpad feel.

5 - Pile of 2007 expenses not yet entered.

6 - view of students walking between classes at the U. of Delaware one block away, mostly women.

7 - awards from Lotus industry, 2003 & 2005 WAKA championship signed game balls.

8 - Required for breaking the monotony of software work, YouTube playalongs, or whenever Notes is performing a consistency check on my 3GB mailfile.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 4:26 PM Location Washington DC | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Work life Entrepreneurship

(have just recovered from a week of post-conference Flu)

I met my wonderful wife Calyce (Ka LIKE ee -- Greek mythological name for an American girl) in 1996 at Lotus where she was a Notes developer and I was a contractor.  A couple of years later, after we got married, she had taken a leave from Lotus.  My new company couldn't find enough developers, so I recruited her for an app dev project.  Worked great for about a year, but then while arguing in the kitchen one day about a project related matter, the words "You're fired!" came out of my mouth at what seemed to be the exact same moment she said "I quit!".  Quantum physics says no two things happen at the exact same time; one must've happened before the other.  But the instant replay is not available, so we'll never know her true alumni status here at the company.  But we get along great otherwise.

The upside of having married someone so close to my work is that she gets what I do -- and that makes working from home a lot easier.  But if you want my advice, don't hire your spouse.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 12:00 PM Location Washington DC | Permalink | Comments (9)