I hear this a lot: Hey, you’re the monkey guy, right? Indeed, I have gotten far too much mileage out of a simple text file that I got off the Internet in the mid-90s that I did not write. Nor do I know who originally wrote it. But there’s a new location [...]
Today is my last day working at Red Hat. I’ve been there for nearly nine years – most of my adult life – and I have a lot of fond memories. In some ways I would say that Red Hat and I grew up together. Working in three cities: Raleigh, Toronto and [...]
Design is Arrogance. Design is Humility. Indeed, I feel that I fight this battle inside myself all the time. When do you assert? When do you listen? When do you draw out what people are feeling when you think they are hiding how they really feel? How do you [...]
Lots of random stuff is showing on the Intertron today. A random sampling:
Lessons about failure. Talking about the importance of failing fast. Try and avoid the success bias if you can. Corollary is that the way to succeed is not based on intelligence but is based on how many times you [...]
I have no idea if this is a verbatim quote or not, but I loved this little snippit on boingboing about Yahoo! talking to record execs. (If nothing else it aligns with what little I know about how Yahoo! fanatically approaches users – something that they rarely get enough credit for.)
I personally don’t have [...]