Ron Jeffries: Deadline Defense There’s always a deadline... We have to be done on the day. (more)

a way to confuse a Product Team via Project Management :) (more)

Ken Norton: The Tools Don't Matter. Anyone who’s done anything at a certain level for a reasonable amount of time will inevitably get asked about the tools they use. It’s probably in the top five questions I get over email and after conference talks (more)

Ruchin Kulkarni: Transformers: The rise and rise of Hugging Face. “The original agreement on the European Economic Area was signed in August 1992.” Let’s try translating that sentence to French. This is an example that researchers at Google Brain used to illustrate the magic of the “transformer” model in a 2017 paper titled “Attention is all you need” - the greatest thing to happen to Natural Language Processing/Understanding (NLP/U) since sliced bread. (more)

Dec'2021: Tuffmail is shutting down, so I need to move to a new Email/IMAP provider. (more)

Computers can aid humans in our most noble endeavors: art, science, thinking, self-improvement. But today’s dominant computing platforms increasingly work against the needs of creative professionals. Ink & Switch is an independent research lab working on this problem. https://www.inkandswitch.com/

system design approach of having lots of configurability possible, but starting out with a reasonable default configuration so that most users can get started without having to get distracted by Too Many Choices.

And herein lies the tragedy of choice: we have unprecedented abundance of choice and yet we don’t know how much choice we really have, we let others choose for us and even when we do the choosing we are really bad at it. cf Too Many Choices (more)

Barry Schwartz: The Paradox Of Choice ISBN:9780060005696 (more)

A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working.[1] SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business practice, software application, or other industrial system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure (more)

Full Interview with Buster Benson: Pirates, Zombies and the Cyborgification of Humanity. I build lots of little side projects and most of them only end up ever being useful to me and these are way to too complicated to ever be useful to anyone else. The ones that are simple enough that I can imagine other people using them, I generally try to make them into real projects (more)

Applying Computer Game tricks of Motivation and Engagement to the Real World - Real WorldGame. (more)

Cedric Chin: Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win? My friend Lesley has this thing where she says “make sure you’re playing the real game, not some more complicated game you’ve made up for yourself.” (Game Playing) (more)

Critical Chain is the application of the Theory Of Constraints to Project Management (esp Planning). Contra traditional Critical Path concept. (more)

Like Micro-ISV, but for Saas (more)

Karl Schroeder book ISBN:9780765399984 DAC for Whole Earth (more)

R and D facility (more)

non-Home page of a site that you drive traffic to, through WebAd for SEO work - typically the "home" for a market segment

An EMACS PIM app https://orgmode.org/ (more)

Android version of OrgMode http://www.orgzly.com/ Outliner for notes and to-do lists