Posts by Category innovation
Presentation on “Beautiful Software”

I gave a presentation a couple days ago to the NYC chapter of SPIN — that’s “Software Process Improvement Network” for those of you who might not have heard of it. The presentation was on the topic of “Beautiful Software,” and you can download a PDF version of the presentation by clicking here.

Social networking for innovators

Here’s an interesting idea: an August 13, 2010 article in ICT Results, titled “Social networking for innovators,” suggests that companies should be focusing on networking tools for specific categories of people, rather than the generic-Facebook approach that aims to connect every living person on the planet, along with a few stray cats and dogs. Since most companies prize innovation quite highly, and since “innovation remains a fundamentall mysterious process, often the outcome of unexpected Eureka moments,” why not provide collaboration…Read More

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  • One of my photos is in a blog, "Women Manage Credit Better Than Men, Study Says" - http://t.co/LnpxLeFqx5
    May 25, 2013 @ 3:27 pm
  • "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner
    May 25, 2013 @ 9:18 am
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When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.” Bernard Baily
    May 25, 2013 @ 8:17 am
  • Balloons on the Great Lawn http://t.co/T92ykFqn5N
    May 25, 2013 @ 7:32 am
  • Good morning, Twitterverse. It's a chilly 45 degrees, with light rain, here in NYC. Rain, wind, and clouds forecast all day long ...
    May 25, 2013 @ 7:32 am
  • "One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured." Author Unknown
    May 25, 2013 @ 7:13 am
  • "Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music." William Stafford
    May 24, 2013 @ 2:50 pm
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