Month: September 2012
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Trusting Science over Reason
In Technopoly, Neil Postman writes about a trick he loved to play on his fellow professors. When he greeted them in the morning, he would ask whether they had read the C-section of the paper today. If they responded that they had, he would continue making small talk and carry on as usual. If, however, they…
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Development Debt
Imagine building a car, but starting with two bicycles. The first version would maybe have 4 big wheels, some sort of base and an engine. Of course, then we need better seats, and pretty soon some side panels, maybe throw in some cup holders? It’s a rough ride so we put in shocks, a cd…
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Failure is not an Option, It’s a Given
There is not a day that goes by that I don’t fail, usually several times before lunch. It’s not that I enjoy failing or try to fail, it’s that I know it’s the only way I ever find success. The process of innovation requires all manner of trying things that are probably not going…
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Not Knowing What You Don’t Know
Last week, I borrowed a nice SLR camera to take some pictures of a wedding this last weekend. He suggested giving it to me a few days early and did, so I would have some time to try it out. He went over the basic functionality of the camera and the external flash. I’ve taken…