Garrick Van Buren posted:
curation is tomorrow’s most valued skill
I think he’s right on. It isn’t about having deep tallent in a particular trade (who can anyway, when tech changes so quickly?), but about finding the right people for the job, recognizing the trends before everyone else, and being able to weed through the glut of information and recognizing the important bits that will really make a difference.
Dave Caolo relating CNBC’s Fast Money segment that noted “it isn’t often that an electronic gadget becomes more useful and valuable over time.”
I definitely agree with that. My iPhone is now almost two years old and it does much more than it did when I first opened its box.
Agreed. Free upgrades. Lots of things from the App Store, and I think it’ll only get better with the upcoming 3.0 software update this summer.
Are you making stuff, or only meeting to talk about making stuff?
Mychael Nygard analyzes the probability that a critical meeting with 3 people will be deferred till next week in Can you make that meeting?
Turns out that if they’re each 75% utilized, then there’s only a 15% chance they can schedule a one hour meeting this week.
We manage software development as if it were just like manufacturing – by tracking resource utilization. The problem is that software development is more like an act of creation than manufacturing. If you want to go fast (ie, see the benefits from the software as soon as possible) then manage the time, not the resource utilization.
Software development is everything from the concept through the code, and then delivery. Manufacturing is about making 10,000 things all alike. If code were as easy as repeating what we did yesterday, we programmers would copy and paste the code and go home by 9am. From the concept to the code, there is more new material on each iteration that repeated material. As such, manufacturing principals (such as optimizing resource utilization) don’t really make a lot of sense.
Jim Trott discusses it more in the podcast Three Things You Gotta Know (about Lean Agile)
Saul Hansell at the NYTimes.com Bits Blog: The Broadband Gap: Why is Theirs Faster?
I don’t know about manners, but it’s easy to find examples that American’s broadband is second-rate:
In Japan, broadband service running at 150 megabits per second (Mbps) costs $60 a month. The fastest service available now in the United States is 50 Mbps at a price of $90 to $150 a month.
In London, $9 a month buys 8 Mbps service.
At London’s rate, I should be paying less that $2/month for my pawltry 1.5 Mbps. If only. I pay a full $37 each and every month.
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