(Some of) What I did at TVBLOB

Found an old piece of video that reminded me of some of the fun and challenging things I did at TVBLOB, Fabrizio Caffarelli’s second startup, including: Software interface and interaction design: Developed feature requests into step-by-step schematics of UI states and behaviors , worked with engineers to ensure correct and coherent implementation, worked with marketing… Continue reading (Some of) What I did at TVBLOB

Fuck-you money

In 2004, I attended a talk by Margaret Heffernan at a business women’s club in Milan. She was launching her then new book, The Naked Truth, and one of the key lessons she shared was that we all should be striving to earn “walk-away money” – the amount of money you’d need to safely walk away… Continue reading Fuck-you money

Doing it tough: California lockdown 2020

Translation for my non-Aussie readers: “Doing it tough” is an Australian expression that roughly means “to do something that is hard” (sometimes willingly, sometimes not), as in: “Melbourne has been doing it tough with lockdowns.” The Gregg-Straughan household also knows a thing or two about doing hard lockdown: we did it for eight months last… Continue reading Doing it tough: California lockdown 2020