My father was a life-long union member, supporter, and organizer. He had a scholar's grasp of history, a teacher's methodology of communicating, and an Irish Catholic's sense of collective movement towards Salvation for all. Of all my teachers and educators, my father was the
There are developers who find great success as founders or leaders or CEOs. But even the hagiographies of their rise to greatness shows that they aren't actually good managers (and often, aren't particularly good developers). Lots of companies are convinced that being a developer is a
Some people like to dress up in special clothes, get together with like-minded individuals, and then spend 90+ minutes running back and forth over a hundred-meter rectangle of grass. Others like to wear scarves and yell at the first people. I confess to not being fit enough to do the
"The default state of technology – any technology from stone axes to modern computers – the default state of technology is 'broken'." --Dr. Don Norman, experiential designer and founder of the Nielsen Norman Group Technology by definition is something that is created and thus must be maintained. The