Month: August 2010
Paul Graham – What Happened to Yahoo
Paul Graham discusses the issues surrounding building and maintaining a hacker culture.
Drawar – Design The Experience: Expectations
Set your customers up for an awesome experience by succeeding their expectations.
52 Weeks of UX – The Five W’s of UX
Keeping the 5 w’s of user experience at the forefront, help better able to build great products.
The New Yorker – WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan
The WikiLeaks documents may not be new information but re-iterates what has been known for years.
NYTimes.com – Defining Prosperity Down
Krugman once again with arguing forcefully and eloquently for some rational decision making on the part of economic policy.
The New Yorker – Filibusters and arcane obstructions in the Senate
The New Yorker with a long and detailed essay on how the Senate became a broken organization.
Review/Summary of The Mythical Man Month
My review and summary of The Mythical Man Month.
The New Yorker – The real numbers on illegal immigration
The New Yorker does some fact checking of politicians harping on illegal immigration.
Paul Graham – How to Start a Startup
Paul Graham on how to start a tech firm.
Ars Technica – Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn’t get the iPad
Steve Ballmer clueless on what makes the iPad such a phenomenal computing device.