This past weekend, my colleague and friend Sandy Smith participated in Election Hackathon 2012 (read his take of the hackathon). We built our first public Musketeers.me product, Candidata.me. This was my first hackathon, and it was exciting and exhausting to bring something to life in little more than 24 hours.

I came across Dan Crow's insights into startups and older workers this morning, and I couldn't stop myself from nodding in agreement through out the article. Part of it, surely, is that I am now closer to 40 than 30. But everything he says about the value of spending time with family, the pointlessness of working grueling hours, and the skills that come from experience had an air of "I've been there".

How many people looking to donate accidentally click this? 

Carl Erickson observes that a small, boutique team of developers can be massively more productive than a larger team.

Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves to be read.

Startups today are almost half the size than they were a decade ago. It seems that a lot of the collaborative tools that have emerged over the last year help productivity so you can do more work with less employees. And I don't think its just true for startups, I know at work we're doing a lot of work with just 3 people in the Digital Media department.

If crazy people would just stop doing insane things, then maybe we wouldn't use them to refer to crazy stuff. From Nobody's Business: Poor, Misunderstood Leatherface.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, is unhappy with pop-culture depictions of psychopaths and serial killers.

The MASR today ltalks to Coach Nowak, Eskandarian, and Bryan Namoff about United's season so far. As a fan, you have to be happy with the best start ever, and being in 2nd place this early should pay off later in the season, barring a devastating losing streak.

Google Calendar has launched if you want to check it out. There is also an overview of the features available. Will this be a compelling calendaring solution? After looking it over and checking out the website, I think it might be for me. I've setup DAV on apache before so that I can have a portable read/write calendar available online but it hasn't become critical for me.

I came back from a client meeting today to find 1 person looking for me, and then two people aiming me to let know the first person is also looking for me.  Sometimes I hate AIM.  Although one day I turned off IM thinking I'd get some work done, but then I got a call to find out where I was.

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