Month: May 2023
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Failure
Every failed project I’ve been around can trace its failure back to a lack of agreement among the participants about what problem the project is trying to solve.
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Fear will keep them in line
Star Wars has a formula. When it gets followed, the stories are pretty solid and, with competent film making they lead to good films or shows, when it doesn’t, you don’t. One of the most important parts of the formula is that there has to be a totalitarian power that promotes evil for the heroes…
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Types of meetings
I have a lot of experience having my time wasted in meetings that don’t serve a purpose other than to “have a meeting”. They don’t make a decision, they don’t make the participants better or smarter or more valuable, and they don’t convey information very well. What they did do is show me how not…
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Thoughts on “what programming language should I learn?”
“What programming language should I learn?” is a perfectly reasonable question. You might have asked it yourself. Almost every answer to that question you’ll get is bunk. The one that isn’t, sounds something like, “It depends on what you want to do.”. Which is, while not complete bunk, still very bunk-ish because it isn’t really…