Author: puhriroots

  • PMing A One Person Show: Early Automation & Communication Is Key

    PMing A One Person Show: Early Automation & Communication Is Key

    This is a series: Part 1 and Part 2.   The average workplace touts multiple things to get talent through its doors: freedom, snacks of some sort and culture. Google has donut burgers. Apple has sushi. Your average workplace may have bagel Fridays. These are the supposed perks that will make employees happy and keep…

  • PMing A One Person Show: Staying Effective & Lean

    PMing A One Person Show: Staying Effective & Lean

    Part One of the PMing A One Person Show series Deciding to produce a one person show was not premeditated. I love theater, but I didn’t love it in the sense to create this huge acting roadmap to escape my cubicle. The entertainment world is much too chaotic, predatory and plain stupid for me to…

  • PMing A One Person Show: Asking Why ?

    PMing A One Person Show: Asking Why ?

    It’s been a couple of weeks since I performed my one person show, Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men. I know, I know; it’s strange to read the perspective of someone from the introverted tech world doing an very extroverted art form, but at this point in my career, I’ve come to grips that…

  • Death Threats @ SXSW

    Death Threats @ SXSW

    When #Gamergate happened, I admit I was on the side of the trolls. I had minute respect for Anita’s platform because, well… I was there in the Jack Thompson / Tipper Gore era. I saw what happened when ‘video game activists’ want to ‘enlighten’ the general public: they first cherry pick facts, then whip the…