Lately I’ve been asking my wife for ideas of what to write about for a post. It does seem to get harder to spot what could be talked about as time goes by. She suggested writing about how the human…
Almost everyone has every heard of or read about the “mythical man-month”. Most agree with its premise. In its most distilled form, it means that there is no way to capture a unit of work that will be the same…
I’ve been working in the computer industry since 1986 when I first worked at IBM in Boca Raton as co-operative education student. I was lucky enough to work for IBM in 1982 in Tucson, Arizona during high school senior year…
As humans, we have a kind of duality that runs through us. We crave the presence of friends and family (well, some of the time at least) but we also want our independence. As the years have gone by (as…
Most people have heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The idea is that you can only focus on those things which depend on the things below having already been satisfied. In other words, if you are missing key needs from the…
It’s not completely true, but I wanted to convey an image to start this post. The image is that computers and people form a symbiotic relationship. More accurately, computers don’t benefit from the relationship and also they aren’t even alive.…
Most of us at some time have taken the journey of buying a car. Quite a few of us had the misfortune of either paying too much or buying a less than wonderful car. It’s obvious that something is wrong after…
How did it get to be the end of 2006 so fast? I’m sure there is a relevant theory that says that your sense of time is directly related to your age. Given that no-one is getting younger, I’m sure…
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