Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation

Tomorrow, I am going to start podcasting and blogging regularly again. My day job (at Microsoft) has been consuming every spare cycle that I didn't need to eat and/or live but many things are converging which have inspired me to, once again, be attentive to (both personally and professionally) independent innovation and podcasting. If you ...

Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: "Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about productivity, freelancing, running your own business, making money online, setting goals, ...

I've been working with one of my fellow travellers on the software bus for 20 years now.  He works really hard to keep his identity protected so I won't "out" him but I'll refer to him by his secret identity of "Krow".  Krow and I first met when I put a 3 line advertisement in the Monterey Herald in 1987 ...

On this site when I talk about the 'color' of bits I mean the type (art, music, text, code) of the digital IP that Independent Innovators distribute. However, in his post "What Colour are your bits?", Matthew Skala (blog home page) has a very interesting point to make about the 'colour' of bits by which he means the ...

Hello and welcome to the first day of Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation blog and podcast. In the 1970's Richard Nelson Bolles wrote an enormously popular career advice book entitled "What Color is Your Parachute?"  In the 21st century, I think the new question is "What Color are Your Bits?".  You can ...