18 June, 2008
What I learned from Jon & Kate plus Eight
Or, learning to love process/order and prevent chaos
TLC's show Jon & Kate plus Eight has both of us hooked. We started watching after we learned we were expecting Nicholas, partially in a funny "At least we don't have eight kids" way.
...click to continue reading.23 May, 2008
Management Anti-patterns
Sandy sent me a link listing anti-patterns as applied to management practices. For those not up on the jargon, an anit-pattern is a bad practice that is repeated frequently. I first heard this term in terms of programming patterns and anti-patterns, but I've since heard it used in non-programming contexts.
...click to continue reading.26 November, 2007
Work with the 20 percent.
Amazingly insightful easy, as usual, on coding horror about The Two Types of Programmers.
...click to continue reading.The 20% folks are what many would call "alpha" programmers — the leaders, trailblazers, trendsetters, the kind of folks that places like Google and Fog Creek software are obsessed with hiring.