Darling daughter # 2, also known as The Perfect Jennifer, commented that she had the least impressive career of all of my daughters. I responded with true maternal tact, “That’s a load of crap! You’re far more likely to make a difference in the world than any of them. Yes, it’s great that Ronda…
When I first heard the title of Sinead O’Connor’s song, “I do not want what I haven’t got”, I thought that she had identified the secret to happiness. Reflecting a bit, though, I realized I’m one of the happiest people I know and I want lots of things I haven’t got. I want to finish…
In a Dilbert cartoon, the pointy-haired boss tells Dilbert, We need to give our customers what they want. To which Dilbert replies What our customers want is better products for free. Upon reflection, Dilbert and the boss agree to give them a fish bowl screensaver It has been said before that SAS is just offering…
In new product development, in research, you WILL go down some dead ends. Accept it.
We don’t perfect design in our programming until we’re sure we’re going to keep it. Here is a link to the article from 2003 that impressed me, which I mentioned in the video.
Before you think I am hating on the Chinese people or Asian-Americans, please go and read this article, “In China, families bet it all on college education for their children.” I’ll wait. Assuming you didn’t read it, I’ll summarize. The Wus have one daughter who studies 13 hours a day and still graduated 16th in…
I track statistics on my blogs, of course, both this one and my personal blog, which often discusses judo and other martial arts. Normally, this blog has three times as many visitors. Despite what graduate students imply, most people are more interested in statistics than in getting knocked down or punched in the face. A…
” … we may then define intellect in general as the power of good response from the point of view of truth or fact.” – Thorndike, 1921 Edward Tufte impresses me. His books on visual data show him as possessing in copious amounts that very rare commodity – truly original thoughts . So, when he tweeted…
There has been far more heat than light surrounding the current controversy over whether a transgender (male to female) fighter should be allowed to compete in mixed martial arts in the women’s division. This article on The Verge said that opponents of Ms. Fox competition “are not supported by the current science”, citing the fact…
More interesting to me than the spate of articles on the decision of Yahoo to eliminate the option of working from home has been the comments on these articles. I should have followed the advice I give my children, “Never read the bottom half of the internet.” Too late – and I will never get…