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October 03, 2002
Introducing ... myself
Every journal (or web log) has to have a first entry (or posting). I'd like to use mine to tell a bit about myself, and what I hope to accomplish with this web log.
I have worked with technology my entire (short) career. My interest in technology began when I was young. I was an enterprising technology entrepreneur at the ripe age of 14, when I wrote software that let gamers create their own D&D characters. People actually paid money to be able to build characters with unlimited strength and invincible weapons!
In 1991, while studying at the University of Utah for a Computer Engineering degree, I discovered the Internet. A couple years later, while working for a local high-tech advertising firm, I got to bring one of the first companies in Utah on-line. This was quite a process back then, since few people knew what the Internet was, and there wasn't really a lot on the Internet yet. I realized there was a need for a company that could help businesses understand how to use and benefit from the Internet, so I started inQuo in 1994. This was one of many opportunities I've had in my career to gravitate to the nexus between technology and how it is used. Because of my early interest in networks, my interests tend toward network and related technologies.
Since my first job, I've been intrigued with how technology is used to help people and businesses do things. I certainly have my infatuations with some technologies, but generally I find technology for technology's sake uninteresting. I find it much more interesting to understand why and how people and businesses use technology, or finding the perfect fit between a business plan or customer need and the technology that solves the problem or makes them successful.
In this web log, I will share some of the technologies that I am interested in, and why I am interested in them, and some of my thoughts on how technology is used and managed. I am also intrigued with organizational management and inter-organization interactions, and will sometimes share some thoughts on those issues. And who knows what else.
I hope that some of these topics will be interesting to the reader. I hope they will also help those readers who know me to understand the thinking behind the things I do, and some of my vision and things I would like to see happen.
Posted by pete at October 3, 2002 07:06 PM
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