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Share When Monty Python sang about it, it was funny. (At least it was funny 40 years ago.) When it takes over your inbox, it’s frustrating. And when someone gets sucked in and loses data, money, or both, it’s a disaster — and a crime that the constabulary can’t seem to get a handle on. If you [...] Share Joel on Software — by ex-Microsoft veteran and Fog Creek CEO Joel Spolsky — has been my favorite tech-world blog by far for the past decade. In two weeks, he’s going off the air — for good, he says, in both senses of “for good.” Joel, you’ll be missed. I can think of no one in the tech [...] Share I was going to write this article, but a few days ago Ron Ashkenas at Harvard Business Press in effect wrote it for me. He nails four issues around believing that data = truth: Are we asking the right questions? Share Software vendors are invariably after you to upgrade. Should you? If so, when? Right now, WordPress — the tool I use to run both my blogs and my Lexician.com site itself — nags me at the top of every screen: “WordPress 2.9.2 is available! Please update now.” [Exclamation point in original.] There’s nothing that tells me [...] Share Andrew Buck over at the Project Hut has a post today on Meeting Behaviors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It’s a good post, but it oversimplifies in a few areas. More specifically, it falls into the trap of “all meetings have the same purpose.” Ain’t true. Buck’s comments are dead on for many meetings, but there’s [...] Share Tom Peters (a/k/a TomPeters!) has a terrific post today about building great first-line managers. I won’t repeat all 20 points here, but I want to call out a few specifically because they are so often overlooked in lists of this sort: 5. New 1LMs should “shadow” senior 1LMs for a significant period of time. (“1LM” is [...] Share Two weeks later and I’m still trying to puzzle out The Who’s flaccid performance at the Super Bowl. It’s no wonder they didn’t play their first hit, My Generation, with it’s tagline, “Hope I die before I get old.” I didn’t expect them to play it… but I didn’t expect them to get seriously old, either. “Things [...] Share Here are two humorous views of the future-is-now. Is the world full of amazing things? Or did it come up short? Check out David Wilcox’s Modern World: This ain’t the modern world that I remember My leisure time [...] Share It must be written, in the Great Book of Software Design Principles: Thou shalt never leverage the usability/design principles discovered by thy rivals. I’ve never actually seen the book, mind you. But I know it’s there. Why else would so many software designers follow the same rules so slavishly? This rule is sometimes called NIH, “not invented here.” [...] Share If there’s nothing certain, as Ol’ Ben put it, but death and taxes, Hamlet wrestled with only part of the question in his most famous soliloquy: To be, or not to be…. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come! (This passage must set the record for titles derived from a single chunk of text. [...] |
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