Good ideas, and how to turn good ideas into great products
It’s a good thing PMs are naturally suited to doing things the hard way. Unlike software developers, who can choose between various powerful integrated development environments like Visual Studio or a turbo-charged Emacs or VI environment, we PMs normally use nothing more powerful than Microsoft Word and Excel. (Some of the more modern amongst us [...]
I realized the other day that I couldn’t tag my articles so that Technorati could index them. So I found the “freetag” plugin for Serendipity, and just installed it. It seems to work. I had to configure an English-language template file — the one I downloaded via Spartacus didn’t seem to have one, although the [...]
A few days ago Kathy Sierra, author of Creating Passionate Users, one my favorite blogs, mentioned as an aside these two articles about why no one is reading my blog:
Josh Porter’s “In The Blogging World You Don’t Have Sex On The First Date”
“Blogging is a lot like dating. Like a date, a blog post can [...]
One of the most interesting topics I’ve been reading up lately is biomimicry – the idea of creating materials, gathering energy, growing food the way that nature does. For example, when we make things these days – cars, kitchen utensils, diamond rings – the basic methodology is heat, beat, and treat. We build things by [...]
I posted back in August that I’d started playing guitar again, focusing on Django-style gypsy jazz. Well, I’m happy to report that I’m still playing! So far progress has been slow, but I’m actually getting pretty adept at the three and four-note chord voicings that are the bread and butter of the pompe style of [...]
