At this point you’re no doubt completely without sympathy. You are no doubt observing that at least the poor little rich CEO gets to work at home and won’t get fired if his productivity hits the floor with a whump, as it has the last few weeks. You’re right, it could certainly be worse. But man, I felt like crap for a long time. I still have days where just reading my email is triumph.

So the other night I was surfing the web in my home office and got drunk dialed by a scientist.

Sometimes, the customer really is wrong.

Somewhere Microsoft may still have a warehouse full of Visual Basic 5.0 manuals printed up because I crusaded for the customer when the customer didn’t really care. I joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Program Manager for Visual Basic, at the time the most popular programming language on the planet. Everything about that job was [...]

I was working in my home office a few days ago. I was finishing up a new product, concentrating intensely. Despite being deeply engrossed I heard something unusual. It faded in and out of consciousness, but it finally hit me: the sound was ducks quacking. This made me happy. Although I was hard at work, [...]