a blog about information
I love reading Tara at HorsePigCow; she writes stuff that’s sufficiently off-beat to make me think hard and go places I didn’t plan to go. Which is a good thing. Tara recently posted on the death of the browser, and then followed up after a comment by JulesLt. And it made me think. About the … Continue reading “Four Pillars: On analog and digital lives”
A colleague of mine, Mike Persaud, pointed me at this report from IBM, the Global Innovation Outlook 2.0. [An aside: Preparing for this post, I Googled “IBM GIO”. And got nearly half a million results. The first three all related to what I was looking for. Which is good. But the first entry was titled … Continue reading “Four Pillars: Parallel and not serial”
A prefatory note: I am not ashamed of being called Utopian. When I started full-time “work” nearly thirty years ago, straight out of university, I had no idea what to expect. So I imagined that work was a natural extension of university. And for me, university was a natural extension of school: I attended a … Continue reading “Four Pillars: On learning and opensource: A long post”
I’m going to be lazy and use parts of Wikipedia’s summary of The Mythical Man-Month. And make a few assertions as to why we may need to revisit the whole shebang. Yup, another very provisional post. More musing than thinking. The Mythical Man-Month: When we develop for the web, are there really any more large … Continue reading “Four Pillars: Time to rethink Frederick Brooks?”
You may remember that in a recent post of mine, I linked to an essay by Paul Graham on What Business Can Learn from Open Source. Fascinating essay. I hadn’t read much of Paul since his LISP days, just the occasional wander over to his site. My bad. Reading that essay made me go out … Continue reading “On Hackers and Painters and Education and Bonding and Risk and Nanny Languages”