Field Guide to Programmers

Kevin Kelly’s Technium has turned out some great articles of late. His latest tidbit is a little question about the computerization of, well, everything.
Turing’d:

We have this long list of tasks and occupations that we humans believe only humans can do. Used to be things like using tools, language, painting, playing chess. Now, one by [...]

Here’s something to think about as we all try to navigate the uncertain waters of 2008.

Like it or not, in most organizations HR has grown up with a forms/clerical/factory focus. Which was fine, I guess, unless your goal was to do something amazing, something that had nothing to do with a factory, something that required [...]

No Man’s Land is a business book aimed primarily at entrepreneurs whose companies have reached the dreaded plateau in sales/profit/customer acquisition/etc. The author, Doug Tatum, calls this lull the “No Man’s Land” where companies either decide to stay small, restructure and break out, or wither and die. The book definitely serves it’s purpose, [...]

The title of this post comes from the end of Hank William’s long discourse on the state of tech companies today. I bolded one particular sentence way down at the bottom:
“Companies not lead by geeks in tech driven marketplaces will fail.”
I’d expand that to most industries, not just tech concerns. Every company [...]

Recently, I changed my LinkedIn profile picture to King Moonracer, King of the Island of Misfit Toys. That might seem a little strange in the somewhat staid and stuffy world of LinkedIn, but I wanted to keep my profile in line with who I really am. That’s why I added a tag line:

You [...]