I’ve just had a sudden realization. All those years in school looking at the other students thinking why can’t they be smarter and just get the math, science, or whatever – I was wrong. They weren’t the slow ones because they were learning exactly the lesson the curriculum was designed to teach them. I was [...]
Seth Godin wrote this ingenious analysis of market changes titled “It’s not the rats you need to worry about“. It got me to thinking about how I prefer CDs over downloaded music. Primarily I have this preference based on the quality of the content. I’d prefer not to have more physical media taking up space [...]
Several weeks ago I noticed that someone had written the phrase “Nobody likes a quitter.” on a white board in my office. I’ve been pondering this for quite some time now, and I have a few thoughts.
It seems like at least a few people would in fact like quitters. For example, the runner up [...]
You should never ask a geek what they are doing. Why? Well let us say for the sake of argument that you are not a geek. You are walking around and you see someone you know. They are a known geek. Let us also assume that the geek is using a computer. Now here are [...]
After a period of time when other Maurice Careys were at the top of the Google search, I have returned. At one point I held the top spot due to my frequent posts on a Linux user group. Now my website holds the top position. This of course is not exactly a SEO coup. How [...]
The Programmers are Lazy Principle basically states that programmers do not like to do work. As a consequence, a good programmer will avoid work by creating situations that eliminate the need to repeat work. There are many results that follow from this basic truth. For example, many have noticed that a programmer will spend three [...]