Posts tagged with Thoughts
Building a Friendlier Moving Train
I've been reading Tyler Cowen's Average is Over, in which he argues that as computing takes on more and more aspects of modern society, those who use technology to complement human intuition and skill will race…
Refactor the World
Ever look at a piece of code and think, Hey, waitaminute, I've seen this before. It was cargo-culted from this module... And the way this class inherits from this other class, well, that doesn't make…
Privilege
As an ex-Googler myself, I started reading this piece on another Googler's decision to leave with an eye towards its current problems and how a company renown for its freeform engineering culture is balancing that responsibility while…
Can the Enterprise be Consumerized?
The buzzword for the past 2-3 years – ever since people affirmed that smartphones and tablets are kind of a big deal – is that the office will have to adapt and ultimately cater to its workers' home computing setups.…
Outsized Credit to Undersized Effort
It's easy to derive patterns and conjure connections from the tidbits of news that we consume daily. Whether it's drawing a line between the strategy underlining all of Microsoft's products, to placing all the…
Outdated Vehicular Technologies
I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I…
