Archive for October, 2008

Lessons from Technology News

A number of recent events in technology seem to carry a set of useful lessons:
LESSON 1: BLOAT IS BIGGER BUT WILL ALWAYS BE OUTNUMBERED. Microsoft decides to abandon Vista and yield a “lightweight” (yeah, right) Windows 7 that’s runs in browsers and uses online resources. Sound familiar? Yep - Windows isn’t losing to Macintosh, it’s […]

Asynchronous Communication - The Time Has Come

You’re a busy professional. What you’re doing is in demand. You’ve got lots of clients and lots of work. What kind of communications technology do you use - synchronous or asynchronous? Probably some of both, but probably not enough of the latter. Synchronous communication, of course, is talking back and forth live (phone calls, chatting) […]

Small is More for the MicroEntrepreneur

It no longer matters what operating system I use: Windows, Linux, Mac-OS. Every application that’s essential to me is online (I’m almost entirely supported by Google’s full line of applications), and every other one that I need is cross-platform (firefox and a few plugins, nvu, etc.).
It no longer matters what kind of […]

Unpopular Comments on Unpopular People

One of the things that a business can do is sustain the very notion of what work means. It can use its resources to uphold the meaning of work itself, and so its own meaning, and the meaning of the myriad of endeavours on which its participants spend the vital years of their lives.
Almost every […]

The Garden is Everywhere

I don’t understand people who can steal from their companies or their clients. Can you imagine waking up in the morning and knowing you have nothing in yourself that’s real and genuine by which you can live? This is what you’ve got - what you’re made of - this is the fruit of your character? […]