How is that for a niche SEO headline? When I migrated to a new MacBook Air – for some reason EndNote would not open citation files (.enw) by default. The trick is supposed to be ‘right click on the document to select and set the default app.’ EndNote would seem to be set as default, […]
My first-day advice to new members of the team boils down to, “Don’t worry, you are going to be totally miserable in about three months.” We all know the excitement of that first day at work. There are new people to meet, new projects to learn and new roles and responsibilities to master. Part of […]
The challenge of personalizing the news is the heterogeneity of our personal interests and the weakness of the signal we expose to the recommendation engine. As an example, below are four stories from around the country I was interested in today, for reasons ranging from ‘possibly obvious’ to ‘unknowable’ by an algorithm. And by ‘unknowable’ I mean how likely would […]
I can’t remember the first (or last time) I heard this proverb but I am convinced it is an allegory for product management and technical debt. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse, the rider was lost; For want of the rider, the battle was lost; For want […]
Yesterday, the BBC podcast “50 Things That Made The Modern Economy” covered the invention of the electric dynamo. The episode was partly based on a 1990 academic paper by economist Paul A. David who studies “scientific progress and technical change.” His thesis is that the initial lack of productivity gains related to the introduction of […]