Review: Little Brother
(sick again…at least I get to catch up on my reading) Something has always puzzled me: I’ve never solidly connected with a Cory Doctorow story. It’s baffling; we’re practically brothers-in-geekdom....
View ArticleNetflix watch: Taming of the Shrew available instantly
The 1980 BBC version with John Cleese. Available for instant watching, but will go away on April 01. Apparently lots of BBC stuff is supposedly going away soon. (I’ve never linked to a Netflix title...
View ArticleThe Inmates are Running the Asylum: review and RFE
The central thesis of The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper is dead on: engineers get too wrapped up in their own worlds, and left entirely to their own whims can easily make a product...
View ArticleFailure as the secret to success
Excellent article in Wired, perhaps a good explanation of my career. :-) Dunbar observed that the skeptical (and sometimes heated) questions asked during a group session frequently triggered...
View ArticleThe Rick Wakeman clause?
Phrase seen in this article about whether video games are art, and Roger Ebert’s opinions thereon. “Video games by their nature require player choices, which is the opposite of the strategy of serious...
View ArticleGood to Great
One book that Ken Bado, the MarkLogic President and CEO, likes to talk about is Good to Great, (subtitled why some companies make the leap… and others don’t), a result of many man-years of meticulous...
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