Posts filed under “Business/The Software Industry”
Facebook: the Wikipedia of you
Facebook is trying to be the new Wikipedia. Lately there’s been a lot of privacy backlash over Facebook making a lot of information public by default. But one question that’s getting lost in the controversy deserves more attention. Why are they doing it? I was lucky enough to be at a semantic web conference just [...]
Getting a sense of scale
How fast should a startup get to a minimum viable product? I recently had the chance to compare an organization to an email. The organization has had a number of meetings and made some useful decisions. They’ve put up a small site, but want to reorganize it and update the copy (it’s currently a shell [...]
Don’t Work on the Wrong Machine
Fred Brooks: Build one to throw away My version: Build every one to throw away. Fred Brooks’ classic The Mythical Man-Month made this observation developing a new piece of software – inevitably, many of the problems that will need to be solved won’t be known until you try to solve them. The first try will [...]
Ramble: Bureaucracy
This is how bureaucracy works. When you first see this, if you’ve had any experience with office bureaucracy, you may think “that’s true!” followed by “that’s crazy” followed by “that’s life,” and then you may run away because you want to watch scrubs or family guy or something. I don’t have a TV though, so [...]