Eric Mann's Blog

  • Be Yourself

    Understand who you are and what you stand for. It won’t always be popular, but so long as you’re consistent to your internal identity, I’m confident you’ll come out just fine.

  • Most Christmas Music Isn’t for Me

    If anyone stopped to ask me, though, they’d learn I both love and look forward to the Christmas holiday – this coming week the most.

  • Immediate Reaction to EU VAT Regulations

    The thought that I have to pay a European tax because the end recipient of my digital work lives in Europe feels like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

  • Death by Documentation

    Before I finally made it to a more modern company that fully embraced Agile methodologies, I worked for a firm that used the waterfall method exclusively for project planning. It was a nightmare.

  • The Sony Precedent

    I can’t stand bullies, and I won’t let fear instilled by others dictate how I live my life.

  • First Thought Wrong

    In the most emotionally charged situations, though, your first response is often the wrong response.

  • Bundling and Bloatware

    Many would argue that Jetpack, not WordPress itself, is a dangerous bundle of bloatware.

  • No Excuses

    If I’ve learned anything over my career thus far, it’s that we come up with the stupidest excuses to not do something.

  • Moral Absolutes

    Regardless of the culture involved, there are some things that are always wrong whether or not the culture recognizes them as such.

  • All Work and No Play

    All work and no play makes it hard to justify hobbies that look too much like your career.