Tony’s pictures from RockCamp sent me down a peculiar line of thought.
My generation, Gen-X is the first generation to grow up on rock ‘n roll. We are also the first generation to maintain our attachment to rock music well into adult life. To this day, my heroes are musicians.
I may be an extreme […]
I’m so inspired by Bandit’s piece on failure that I’m writing a comment as a post!
The mainstream corporate allergy to risk and failure reminds me of the Beavis and Butthead episode when they go camping, and Butthead has to take a shit in the woods. He wipes his butt with poison ivy and the whole camping thing goes from […]
Bandit and I are now deep into the writing part of our book project, and every now and then I surface to look down on what it is we are doing.
We are trying to make sense of the unfolding relationships (plural, because there will be many) between independent/independent-minded Millennial technologists and creatives, on the one […]
As I write, bits and pieces come together in interesting ways…
There’s a group of people in business who live to tell others what to do. They rose to power when humans settled down because they were the essential catalyst needed to turn a group of seat-of-their-pants hunter/gathers into an agricultural workforce.
Today we call them […]
I’ve been trying to figure out how the design style office-drab came about. You know what I’m talking about–white noise, indirect lighting, no plants, rows of beige cubicles… Well, I’ve finally figured it out.
The core assumption underlying this style of interior design is the belief that workers will do their assigned tasks if […]
Port 8888 is blocked!
(Technically speaking, every port except 80, 443 and maybe 25 is blocked.)
Meaning, from inside their network, I can’t connect to a server of mine outside their network running a service on port 8888.
In any case, this is unfortunate, because I’m trying to demo my software.
The IT guy tells me that it’s necessary […]
Yesterday Bandit lobbed an awesome salvo about F.W. Taylor and his theory/practice of scientific management. Despite the fact that management academics have poked fun at Taylor and Taylorism for well over 50 years, managers love it!
Think I’m making this shit up? What about:
BPR (Business Process Reengineering)
TQM (Total Quality Management)
Six Sigma
(SCM) Supply Chain Management
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) […]
Guess what? If you’re an engineer, programmer, illustrator, writer, designer, you’re too stupid to manage yourself. Yes, it’s true. And you know it.
I’m sure you felt subtle tugs of inadequacy as you tried to move up the corporate ladder, as you were passed over for promotions and opportunities to play a larger, more expansive […]
It’s as if a requirement for entering the ranks of senior management today is the ability to make excuses for why it’s impossible to do things that most people agree are important.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Bandit
February 29, 2008 – 2:46 pm
In his recent Wired article, ‘Free,’ Chris Anderson talks about the economics of free. Anderson’s new book, due out in early 2009, will also be called Free, so we will hear all about this in due time. His core idea is important. How do businesses, so used to proprietary products and services, information control, and the […]
