A little over three hundred years ago Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a way to weave richly patterned fabric using punch cards.  These patterns could be changed with new punch cards.  This made it different from the high volume fixed pattern looms also being developed at the same time.  Jacquard's loom pointed the way to industrialization based on flexible specialization instead of rigid mechanization.  Over time, the less flexible looms out competed punch card looms on price and volume.  Rigi...

There is a big difference between doing something that is a waste of a time and something that wastes your time.  It's the difference between drifting backwards or moving, if only painfully slowly, forward.  It's also the difference between doing an excellent job on the wrong thing or doggedly pursuing something great.

Many seemingly important tasks fall squarely into the category of "things that are a waste of time".  You can keep your desk perfectly tidy.  You can hold meetings with lots of ...

Getting yourself found above the search engine clutter is an interesting feat.  A whole industry of search engine optimization exists to help you rise above the noise.  SnapEng so far seems to have faired well in the googolplex without any special tricks of the trade.  This seems to be based on three lucky hunches and the unexpected help from a host of app catalog sites.

The first hunch was to create a name, a tag that was unique and unexploited as a URL address.  SnapEng did not show up in se...