January 2005

Tom Peters, Master of Quotation

January 26, 2005

Tom Peters may write in an unconventional manner, but it allows him to get ideas across in a remarkably concise fashion, as he does in his This I Believe! manifesto at ChangeThis. He reads a huge amount, and I found...Continue reading...

Focus

January 21, 2005

Focus, and by extension one’s involvement in something, is the key to quality work in a world that is awash in opportunities. Time ran a recent article on “twixters”, college graduates in their mid-20s who live at home, hop from...Continue reading...

Ranking Tasks Implicitly

January 20, 2005

I’m interested in systems that rank tasks implicitly; that is, without requiring people to define which one is “most important”, “next most important”, etc. These are the ways I’m currently thinking of: Urgency Is this task due soon? Location Are...Continue reading...

Agents and Decisions

January 19, 2005

I’ve been reading a thesis on Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant, written by an ex-freshman dormmate of mine, Luke Swartz (not to be confused with the paper on folksonomies written by another ex-freshman dormmate, Adam Mathes…it was quite the dorm)....Continue reading...

My Day Job

January 17, 2005

Sometimes it’s hard to explain how I build web applications—so here’s a time-lapsed view of the changes I made to one page this afternoon: That code allows a user of the application to rearrange columns of a “supertable”…a year ago...Continue reading...