Det här är min dotter. Hon vet vad äkta skoj är för henne. Äkta skoj är att kuta som en galning med sin gröna sopbil fram och tillbaks i lägenheten där man bor. Äkta skoj är också att gå balans på kanten till granngårdens sandlåda.
Vet du vad äkta skoj är för dig?
Dave Winer: “Python is the New Basic”.
Two Russian artists that set out to consciously compose a song that almost everybody would hate may have succeeded in creating a masterpiece. Do not miss this chance to hear it. All of it. It is pure genius. Opera rapping, children’s choires, bagpipes, it’s all there.
Just goes to prove that if you set your sights too closely on one goal, you may just end up exactly opposite to where you wanted to be.
(Via Boing Boing)
Henrik Mårtensson has published a list of business books that have influenced him. He also encouraged us readers to create our own lists. So here’s my list, in no particular order, not complete (I’ll add to it as I come to think of more books), and as of now without any motivation of why a particular book was included.
* The Blind Men and the Elephant, David Schmaltz
* Becoming a Technical Leader, Gerald Weinberg
* The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge
* Secrets of Consulting (and More Secrets of Consulting), Gerald Weinberg
* The Art of Problem Solving, Russell Ackoff
* Agile Software Development with Scrum, Ken Schwaber
* Are Your Lights on?, Gerald Weinberg and Don Gause
* A Guide to Rational Living, Albert Ellis and Robert Harper
* An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, Gerald Weinberg
And a great article:
* Resistance as a Resource, Dale Emery
As founder and editor of PNEHM!, Citerus’ newsletter on successful software development, I get to publish loads of great articles written by my smart colleagues at Citerus. The most recent is my friend Magnus Ljadas’ interview with consulting icon Jerry Weinberg. On his blog, this is what Jerry himself says about Magnus as an interviewer:
“I’ve been interviewed many times over the years, but Magnus is the best interviewer I can remember.”
Don’t miss out on this great interview with a great person.
Computer Sweden, 29 oktober 2007. Stockholms läns landsting bränner högar med skattepengar, men har ännu inget system att visa upp. Men, men – den enes död …
“Vinnarna på fiaskoprojektet är leverantörerna: WM-data, HP, Tietorenator (sic), Teleca och Telia, som alla tecknat avtal för att leverera tekniska tjänster till projektet.”
Om det är så här vi definierar “vinna” kanske det vore bra om fler konsultföretag “förlorade”?
Update: link to PBF comic got mangled by WordPress. Sorry, try again. It’s worth it!
It is, for me, near impossible to imagine that anyone can better illustrate the challenges of handling improvement suggestions in what David Schmaltz would call a master-slave relationship, than Nicholas Gurewitch has done in this wonderful Perry Bible Fellowship strip.
David Schmaltz, author of The Blind Men and the Elephant, and his wife Amy Schwab are introducing a “Bring Yourself To Work Day”. It seems it will occur on the fourth Thursday of May, which is the 24th this year. From http://www.bringyourselftoworkday.com/:
“Study after study finds the greatest barrier to increased productivity is not primitive process maturity but the inability of people to bring their full selves to work”
Don’t miss the preparation exercises (the links on the right hand side of the page)!
Ever notice that little search box up in the corner in Firefox and Explorer? Of course you have. You’ve probably used it dozens of time to search for stuff on the web, probably using Google.
You may have noticed that you can also search using many other search engines from this field, and that you can add new search engines if you want to.
What I did not know until today, was how easy it is to add support for your own custom searches using the OpenSearch standard. I started out following these guidelines on how to create my own OpenSearch plugin, but soon noticed a link to a neat tool for doing this for me. Using this online tool, it was a breeze to create a Firefox and Explorer compatible search plugin for Metacritic.com, which is an indispensable site that gathers reviews on games, movies and other entertainment stuff. So, now I can search directly on Metacritic from inside my search field in the browser. Neat!
Uppsala Nya Tidning rapporterar om 240 miljoner skattekronor som har östs in i ett system som är så dåligt att användarna väljer att sjukskriva sig.
Det som är mest fascinerande när det skrivs om den här typen av fiaskon är att man kan ana viss förvåning över slutresultatet. Själv blir jag inte längre förvånad, mest förbannad över att man aldrig lär sig. Framför allt är det beklämmande att läsa om de åtgärder man hoppas ska lösa situationen: “Bland åtgärderna nämns bland annat en riskanalys samt handlingsplan för utbildning, anpassad introduktionstid, så kallade lathundar och utökad support”.
Jag skulle vilja delta på en utbildning där någon från leverantören förklarar varför det krävs 24 musklick för att registrera en vaccination. Och ännu bättre: tänk att få se lathunden för samma process.