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November 28, 2009
Managing Technology Means Being Wrong a lot
Intuition will commonly fail you when dealing with technology. That's why good technologists are also good scientists: looking for patterns, forming hypotheses, and coming up with reproducible tests.
November 23, 2009
There is no do, only try
Yoda was wrong, but he had a good point. There is no do -- accomplishing a goal is what you focus on but it's not the real reward. The real reward is being able to try -- to execute -- better and better each time you move towards a goal. Want a better attention span? Go make yourself do something that requires it. When you're done -- even if you fail -- you have a better attention span.
November 21, 2009
Work at Home Heaven
If these seem like easy problems -- problems you can solve by pulling out some moral lesson you learned on a TV show or with some easy slogan -- then this work-at-home heaven is not for you.
November 14, 2009
The Lure of the Paycheck Stub
Is it absurd to sit around writing code while sick in the hopes that you make something that will help people, knowing that the odds are stacked overwhelmingly against you? Yes, it is absurd. But absurd and valueless are two entirely different things.
November 11, 2009
I've Changed My Mind
The advice for people with startups has always been "ideas don't matter, teams do" -- that means that great ideas with bad teams will always tank while even bad ideas with really great teams have a chance at becoming extremely...
For Today
For Veteran's Day Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: 'Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns' he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the...