What would you do if you found out that a project you were working on was going to be used in an unethical or illegal manner? This is the sort of question that K. Scott Allen asks via a hypothetical scenario he proposes. At least I hope it’s hypothetical. Scott, is there something you want to confess? ;) While his situation is hypothetical, I think enough time has passed for me to tell you about a real situation I had the pleasure of dealing with at VelocIT. Some of the minor details have been changed to protect the guilty. This...
Today is my last day of work as a VelocIT employee, a company I helped start and had (and still have) high hopes for as employee #1. No, I’m not being fired for blogging too much or embezzling funds. No, there wasn’t a big falling out with partners in the company throwing books at each other and screaming expletives. Unfortunately, nothing dramatic and tabloid-worthy like that happened at all. I simply lost interest in being a consultant and I blame Subtext. Micah Dylan, the CEO and Founder of VelocIT and my good friend, and I often talked about the idea...