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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
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Author Archives: Chris Heisel
AJC development group mentioned at APME
We’re in [film!](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) Robin Henry, our Digital Managing Editor extraordinaire, spoke at a recent [Associated Press Managing Editors conference](http://www.apme.com/) and screened this [Soundslides presentation](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) that Emily Murphy and the [AJC](http://www.ajc.com)’s multimedia group put together. I look and sound like a … Continue reading
Posted in Django, Journalism, Programming, Python, Technology
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Human nature vs. good business sense
I was home sick the other day with an awful sinus headache and stomach flu. About the only bright side was that I got to watch [Battlestar Galactica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%28re-imagining%29) on DVD. I thought to myself, “Boy this is a really great … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Management
Tagged business, sociology
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Great quote on philosophy
Trust your passions less, your reasons more, and your limits most. From [Prof. Daniel Robinson](http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/drobinson/index.htm), Oxford University, via an NPR podcast.
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AirPress
AirPress This could be interesting. I like MarsEdit, but I wish I could write and save a draft to my server, so I could start a post at work at lunch and finish up at home.
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Facebook + AIM = evil
To the 105 people I spammed today via IM while playing with Facebook… my humble apologies. That was way evil of me, and I’d say slightly evil of facebook to offer… in what universe do folks want IM spam? So … Continue reading
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