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Sorry for my lack of blog visibility. I’ve been writing code rather than English lately — we get paid more when I do that. :) I wanted to mention another simple pleasure of JFM: the food. My previous 19 years of employment were for big companies (Apple and Microsoft) with thousands of employees on a […]

There are all kinds of warnings, admonitions, and recommendations, in terms of what to expect both positive and negative when you run your own small business. Here’s one that was a pleasant surprise. While everyone else was busy doing important stuff like coding and designing I went to the bank machine to make a deposit. […]

OK. I admit it. We’re not the first to complain about this. And frankly, we’re so early in the creation of Jackson Fish that we’re not in a position to say we’ve created much of anything quite yet. That said, we do have goals. And sometimes, when we describe those goals, we get this look […]

In the post a couple of days ago I pointed out that a much likelier way of guaranteeing a regular income is to create a solid business with low overhead and consistent returns than betting the farm on the long shot flip or IPO. Astute readers will notice that this “solid business” typically requires that […]

Over the last couple of days I rebuilt our WordPress template. Since my CSS skills sucked and my PHP was non-existent this took longer than I’d hoped. But it was necessary (and fun) as modifying the template I snaked was no longer getting the job done. (Seriously, I was unable to make the links in […]