Kalzumeus.com Website Review

my name is patrick mckenzie (better known as patio11 on the internets). once upon a time, i was an engineer. i had an idea for some software. programming it was pretty easy. marketing it was not, but i really enjoyed the new challenge. at some point over the years, i graduated from being an engineer to running a software business. i’ve been blogging regularly since 2006 — check out my greatest kalzumeus software is named after a dragon in a long-forgotten rpg campaign. it’s so hard to find available .com domain names these i love talking to other small businesses at any time, for any reason: please, drop me an email. i respond to as many as i can, time i've run a few small software companies over the last few years, but am not actively involved in any at present. some examples: professional services businesses. i founded it in 2010 and sold the business in september 2016. kalzumeus software is the catch-all umbrella for my consulting business (which was mostly active from 2010 through 2012) and this is outside of my normal software-focused beat, but i met some folks who were very interested in public policy recently. i found, to my surprise, that i probably understand one innovative japanese tax policy better than very well-informed people who geek out about tax this is outside my usual brief, but one of my hobbies is that i used to ghostwrite letters to credit reporting agencies and banks. it is so i’m writing down what i know to help folks who might need this in the future.. kalzumeus podcast episode 14: running a business portfolio with jonathan siegel. jonathan siegel is a buddy of mine who lives in tokyo. i can’t decide whether i’m more floored by the fact that he runs five businesses at once or has eight kids. he recently wrote a book the san francisco fallacy the last two decades with folks who might be getting a wee bit too much of their advice from techcrunch.