So I had a great day today, things started real hectic, but the afternoon was filled with in trepidation and interest...
After seeing some random posts on a couple of Feeds I was watching, namely Hugh Macleod's and Doc Searles' I learnt that Gary Turner is about to leave his current Pegasus MD gig and look for something else... I was kinda interested in how his search, openly being discussed on some influential blogs was being articulated as I am currently redundant (although not searching anymore)... so I had a look on his blog and found that this influential software guy had a similar outlook on the software industry and lived 1/2 an hour from me!
So, on the off-chance that their may be some mutual benefit/interest I pinged him an email and a week later I'm sat in a meeting room at Pegasus chatting to the man himself!
We had a good discussion, the guy is indeed a great bloke, very knowledgeable and articulated his thoughts really well... I think I learnt some valuable stuff from him, not sure I added a massive amount of value to his day, but in the future I will be sure to reciprocate...
We chatted for over an hour which was cool as I expected to be in and out within the hour and we touched on a whole range of topics such as what we were doing (present companies), aspirations, recruitment, state of the software industry in the UK (now and in the 90's), Start-ups, Web2.0, outsourcing, blogging, Networking (social and otherwise) and Mobile Phones.
It was a refreshing discussion, I enjoyed the opportunity to engage with Gary and I think his value proposition to those potential new employers is quite simply Gary Turner...
As Hugh, Doc and a whole load of other people are saying... Gary Turner needs a freakin' good job.. your company may well need him so check him out!
Thanks for the time (and the crap coffee) Gary, very much appreciated...!
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