Happy No US Clients Want Meetings This Week Week to all who celebrate!
Also, prepare yourself for "We're going to have to push this into Q1 2026" season!
fedicat
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So, if you're working as a consultant and need to setup something like Microsoft Bookings (which I had at my previous employer), what are the best options?
Free is good, reliability is more important.
So, if you're working as a consultant and need to setup something like Microsoft Bookings (which I had at my previous employer), what are the best options?
Free is good, reliability is more important.
I'm working on some interesting stuff this morning, and I'm really enjoying it. So far, no calls about yesterday's issue, which is reassuring.
But I did get a new call, awaiting a follow-up: a few months ago, I sent a (low-cost) quote to modernize a network stuck 20 years in the past. This included new routers, 4G failover (which they currently lack), transitioning from a PPTP (!!!) based VPN to WireGuard, and using IPsec and/or WireGuard for site-to-site connectivity (which is currently handled in a way I'm embarrassed to even mention).
I've been managing some servers for them for a few years (not in the right way, IMO, and there's a plan to fix that too), and they were enthusiastic about my project (and how cost-effective it was, thanks to choosing the right hardware).
Today's call: a colleague who works with them told me they're reviewing a quote this morning for a "professional", "AI-powered" (and hyper-expensive, with recurring fees) firewall because my proposal is supposedly "too basic to be effective".
If they go that route, that's their choice, but I'm always baffled by how the grass is always greener -trusting the first stranger who shows up with buzzwords and pointlessly expensive products.
On the flip side, this afternoon I have an on-site visit with a potential new client who, and I quote, "prefers to spend money on consulting for open-source products than on useless licenses".
Just for that attitude alone, I'm going to offer them extremely favorable terms if the premises are right.
Anyway, it's only 9:20, but the day is already shaping up to be quite interesting.
Mike Zornek
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The Groxio #Consulting team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang and/or training help from one or more of us, please reach out to me! https://groxio.com/
paulyd II - the wrath of caro-kann
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The Groxio #Consulting team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang and/or training help from one or more of us, please reach out to me! https://groxio.com/
The Groxio #Consulting team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang and/or training help from one or more of us, please reach out to me! https://groxio.com/
Ana Ulin 😻👩🏼💻🧶🪡
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Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software#Consultancy.
We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:
- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)
If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!
Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software#Consultancy.
We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:
- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)
If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!
A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?
@tante The Consulting™ business has never been about coming up with working solutions to real problems. Consulting is a convenient way for managers to dodge corporate responsibility by outsourcing business decisions to an external service provider. This convenience is reflected in the pricing of the consultancy service. By using LLMs, consulting firms merely reproduce this logic by outsourcing their own responsibility to the Whatever Machine.