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Moe is a character I invented to write a humor column called
"Analog Man," about business and technology for Inc. Technology
magazine, the quarterly technology issue of Inc.
magazine. The column ran in ten successive issues. I used a pseudonym because
my initial idea was to write about life backstage at an online service, and I
was working at Delphi at the time. As the editors tolled, Moe ended up in a
more versatile though equally virtual company, conveniently adding and dropping
product lines as the humor required.
In general, Moe is a middle manager in a rapidly growing company (as I was)
and is in some kind of marketing. I once thought about some names for Moe's
company, and settled on AcmeZap, but this never appeared. I have considered
doing a book based on Moe, working title: Moe Meyerson's Guide to Life in
the Virtual Office. By the way, the name is a literal translation of my
name in Hebrew. Here are links to the columns as they appeared in the magazine:
- The Toll of a
New Machine Mar. 15, 1995. Technology supplies the boss with an
endless line of new toys -- meanwhile the email people are from Venus, and
the phone people are from Mars.
- Lock-less
Monster Jun. 15, 1995. Computer security versus productivity --
guess who wins? Also contains the basic Analog Man rant about nostalgia
for analog technology.
- Analog Man:
Technology Squared
Sep. 15, 1995. My personal favorite, the column about reinventing the
square wheel.
- Getting
Unreal
Nov. 15, 1995. In the virtual company, air guitar leads to air management.
- Big Brother
Is Browsing Mar. 15, 1996. My tribute to the greatest prophet of
virtual business, back in 1948.
- Oh, What a
Tangled Web Jun. 15, 1996. How Internet Marketing ate the company.
- Sense and
Non-sense Sep. 15, 1996. Taking the environmental controls built
into Bill Gates' mansion into the office, where computers and people fight
over sights, sounds and smells.
- Heartbreak
Hotel
Nov. 15, 1996. Hoteling, an expensive new trend in virtual office
furniture, and how it makes wonderful new, counter-productive
opportunities in office politics.
- Remote
Possibilities
Mar. 15, 1997. How cell phones, modems, and pagers speed up corporate
communications and thus magnify stupidity.
- Grand
Illusions
Jun. 15, 1997. Intranets, and how their correct use by one dynamic sales
executive almost plunged the company into a math paradox.
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