Camille E. Acey

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My occasional musings….

  • Have Family, Will Travel

    I recently got back from a week-long all-staff trip, where I had all day (8:30-5:30) meetings and company dinners nearly every night and somewhere in the middle of it I squeezed in time with my husband and son, who were gracious enough to come along. The last time we had an all-staff, my kid was Read more

  • A Few Links to Stuff I’d Talk to You About If We Were Together Somewhere

    As mentioned a few months back, I was a proud backer of Kathryn Rotondo’s Motherboard Podcast where she interviews mothers working in tech. So I’m excited to announce that she has debuted her first episode. It’s an interview with Red Hat’s ever-brilliant and you can check it out here. –  Listen, subscribe, promote, support! Fast Read more

  • Why Government Technology Procurement Sucks…And How It Can Stop Sucking

    “Startups may have great ideas and great technology, but they’re not necessarily built to make it through the procurement process.”  Instead, the procurement system often favors large, entrenched vendors. As a result, government may be missing some of the most innovative solutions.  I’m in Sales here at my company and a big part of my Read more

  • A Time to Code

    A friend of mine recently posted a link to this article on the best and worst times to do things during your workday and on the last D&G show, Dave and Gunnar talked about Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s excellent productivity tips and the ways that they structure their own days. Since having a kid, Read more

  • Recent Thoughts and Reads

    How’d it get to be February already? Geez. Things are good around these parts. I’ve been working and reading a little and hanging with my guys and skipping through snowflakes. Oh winter! Here are some things I’ve been thinking about. I just caught this great discussion on NPR’s On Being with physicist Brian Greene. He’s Read more

  • New Year – New Links

    Interesting Links & Recent Thoughts Save time this year (and always) with Betteridge’s Law –  Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the general concept is much older. Read more