One of our clients hasn’t paid us. They haven’t paid us for 6 months. This is the brief story of lessons learned — or almost learned.
Posts by Wyatt Kirby
At Apsis, we’re not afraid of being let go — in fact, we want it. Our goal is to help clients grow and succeed, and eventually move on. We operate on simple principles: transparency, simplicity, and clear communication. When it’s time to say goodbye, we’re here to make the handoff smooth and seamless.
Over the weekend, my usual sources for industry news exploded in response to the postponement of the first ElectronConf because the panel of speakers did not “reflect the standards to which we hold ourselves.”
First: thank you. Thank you to ElectronConf and to…
Last month, Noah and I performed what is commonly called an act of heroic programming: We had a demo due, and we stayed up until 4 am — 2 nights in a row — to finish the work. We came out the other end bleary eyed, but triumphant; the demo was on time, the client was happy, and some might…
If I’m completely honest, I never meant to become a job creator (that’s what we call ourselves, it was in the pamphlet). I’ve had a lot of career aspirations in my life: writer, designer, cowboy; whatever it was, they’ve all come with some kind of shape: some way to describe the job in a social…
I studied literature at Bennington College. There, I wrote my thesis on the past, present, and future of the book object. Five years later, I’m still fascinated by the subject. The role that bound paper has played not just in my life, but in the history of humankind, is…