# Sigmund Says...
> Nearly 3 decades of building software and systems. Over 1,000 customers served. Over 600 projects completed. These are my stories. In the Denver/Northern Colorado area? Let's work together.
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## Pages
- [Find Me](https://www.sigmundsays.software/find-me.md) - Here are the places you can find me and my work. Wherever you are, I'd love to connect, and I'd love even more to talk about software with you. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmquinn/ X (formerly Twitter) https://x.com/IamSigmund Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/i-am-sigmund/ CloudSee…
- [My Name](https://www.sigmundsays.software/my-name.md) - It's 1999. After deciding, in 1997, that I did not, in fact, want to be a clinical psychologist, I needed to figure out a new direction for my professional life. I spent 2 years learning network and systems administration, and worked in a couple of jobs in that area of computing from '97 to '99. Th…
- [Not AI](https://www.sigmundsays.software/not-ai.md) - I'm drowning in AI all day, every day (including weekends). I'm trying to convert my company to an AI-native operation as quickly as humanly possible (#irony). But not here. On this blog, I make this solemn promise to you, my cherished reader: 100% of the content here is written by me, Sigmund. I m…

## Posts
- [Six Feet of Cheese](https://www.sigmundsays.software/six-feet-of-cheese.md) - We've had some big wins. Out of the more than 1,000 companies we've served, many of my favorites have been very small firms, sometimes even sole proprietors. And I'm keenly aware that the wins we got for the small fries were probably proportionately more valuable to them than the wins we got our bi…
- [Speed 2.0 vs. Speed 1.0 (or, AI vs. Agile)](https://www.sigmundsays.software/speed-2-0-vs-speed-1-0-or-ai-vs-agile.md) - For the record, I'm pretty fast. At football camp in college, I had the 3rd fastest time in the 40-yard dash on the entire team. In baseball, I loved stealing bases, or taking extra bases when the defense wasn't expecting it. So it's no surprise that when it came to shipping software in my career,…
- [How to (Fail to) Convert From Services to SaaS](https://www.sigmundsays.software/how-to-fail-to-convert-from-services-to-saas.md) - Starting in January of 2020, I began to take company strategy more seriously, instead of secondarily. I hired my first boss in my software career as my COO (and effectively a consigliere of sorts), brought on a silent partner as an investor, and together we laid out a 5-year plan. It had a few diff…
- [I'm Proud of CloudSee Drive (Finally!)](https://www.sigmundsays.software/im-proud-of-cloudsee-drive-finally.md) - LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman famously said, "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you took too long to ship." I'm a perfectionist by nature, so this was always difficult for me to embrace in my software career. Combine perfectionism with impostor syndrome (which I've…
- [The Re-Everything of My Software Company](https://www.sigmundsays.software/the-re-everything-of-my-software-company.md) - After 15 years and hundreds of successful projects, I nonetheless could tell something wasn’t right. At first, I just thought I was bored. As I said, we’d had a ton of success, solved tons of problems, and even invented some cool things along the way. But as I thought more about it, I realized what…
- [Webapper's Origin Story](https://www.sigmundsays.software/webappers-origin-story.md) - What better time to start a new business than when the economy is cratering? And what better industry to start one in than the hardest-hit industry in the downturn? That's what was going on at the time of Webapper's birth in 2001, but my co-founder and I just didn't care. We wanted to do the work w…
- [Sigmund's Origin Story](https://www.sigmundsays.software/sigmunds-origin-story.md) - So who is this Sigmund character, really? I mean, beyond how I got my nickname, who am I, and how did I get here? The short version is that I'm the fusion of an academically-trained social scientist, and a professionally-trained software and systems architect. The longer version is below. I had put…
- [Hello. I am Sigmund.](https://www.sigmundsays.software/hello-i-am-sigmund.md) - Hello. I'm Patrick, aka Sigmund. I've been at this software game for a while now, since 1999 (and working in IT since 1997). I've written a lot, but mostly for my customers. Long, tedious technical docs—specs, reports, etc. I used to blog regularly, back in the early days of Webapper, my software c…

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