Scott Gatz’s Blog

Fellow Yahoo Chad Dickerson wrote a thoughtful post called Tactical is the New Strategic. He writes:
big company managers routinely describe themselves as either “tactical” or “strategic.” Typically, those who say they are “strategic” talk down to those considered more “tactical”, directly or indirectly. This is wrong-headed.…I’m not saying that strategy isn’t important, just [...]

I’ve known for a while that MeasureMap was on the market and looking for a good home and now they’ve gone to google.
I was lucky enough to meet the team there and get a very early alpha account to use on this very blog. It’s a beautiful product that demos well. [...]

This weekend I travelled to Las Vegas on Southwest Airlines and I noticed a very simple principle at work. If you don’t know, SWA doesn’t have assigned seating. Instead, you get a letter (A, B or C) and they board everyone with A, then everyone with B and so on. Southwest [...]

So, this week I’ve been waxing nostalgic.
Two friends at Yahoo! are both hitting their 10 year anniversary working here. It’s hard to believe that someone could be working at an internet company that long. But then I instantly think about myself. I’m close to my 7 1/2 years mark here at [...]