I'm writing this the day after the penalty shoot-out win to Colombia in the World Cup. By the time you read this, we'll either be through to the

Our minds are complex things. There's our conscious mind - this is the bit that's reading these words, mulling them over, thinking about their meaning. You can probably hear it

The stuff that holds us back isn't always what it first seems. When software development was my primary business, I always under-charged. Not by a small amount, but by huge

Email is one of the best ways of staying in touch with people. Not when it comes to project management - group emails are a thing of great horror. But when it comes to

I stole this one from Jonathan Stark, who helps software developers move away from hourly billing. He says he saw a post on Twitter from a web-designer. It was along the lines