Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Last week I got an email from Dan Morse, a writer for the washington post. He asked me about my How the Moleskine Rocked My World post. Today he published, Putting Pen to Paper Anew, in today’s post (with quotes from me!). Jerry Brito was also quoted in the article. He was one of the first bloggers who helped me discover the little gem.
Pretty cool. If you are still wondering, I’m still using my Moleskine, albeit I’ve switched to a Small Ruled Reporter Notebook.
What I found interesting in the article was this quote:
“Americans are expected to purchase 2.2 million Moleskines this year, up from 970,000 in 2004, according to Modo & Modo, the notebook's Milan-based designer. The national bookstore chain Barnes & Noble counts Washington as its third-largest Moleskine selling ground, trailing New York and Philadelphia. In all, Washingtonians are expected to buy nearly 70,000 Moleskines this year.”
Wow, I wouldn’t mind experiencing that kind of grown in my business . I think if they go vertical they can sell even more, like a Getting Things Done edition!