Consulting is like Selling Crack

This post was originally written in June of 2011 and posted on the Adzerk - we have decided to purge that old content but I wanted to preserve it here. A number of hot startups in Durham are looking for developers and I wanted to help them out (that’s…

How I learned to stop giving advice

I used to be such an asshole. I would meet someone and they would tell me about their startup and 10 minutes in I would start giving them suggestions on what they should do. “Have you thought about adding an integration with Salesforce?” “Why not just raise 100k and see…

On Tekpub

It was announced this week that TekPub was bought by Pluralsight - an awesome outcome for Rob and the company. I was one of the founders of TekPub but stepped away in 2011 as I wanted to focus my time on Adzerk. I thought it would be interesting to talk…

Back to Blogging

It's been awhile since I have had an active blog. My previous blog at averyblog.com officially died when I forgot to renew the domain name awhile back. It was a continuation of the blog I used to run on dotavery.com (which is about to expire) which was a…