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Past As Prologue: The Tale of The Binge-o-Matic

(Note:  This post was originally published here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cesarbrea/stories/storyReader$8 on November 26, 2003)

I left Bain in the summer of 1999 to join ArsDigita, a small firm of ultra-talented software engineers led by Philip Greenspun, and famous for its open-source application framework, the ArsDigita Community System.  Philip's ideas for online communities as the best use of the Web, and of open-source software as a more effective means of realizing such constructs appealed to me on many levels, and I felt I could make a real contribution to the firm.  So I signed on as the second "business guy". 

The rest of The ArsDigita Story has already been told from many different perspectives.  This little fragment has stuck with me (to the groans of friends who have heard me tell it one time too many).  It's said that "within every insanity lies a grain of genius," and for me this proves the point.

Beating Into An Offshore Breeze

This post originally appeared on my first blog, hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center.

Attending an AMR Research conference in Boston today.  Bruce Richardson's (SVP Research) talk -- always good -- included comments on trends and implications of offshore outsourcing.