Classical management philosophy is preoccupied with productivity, not just output, all under the watchful eye of the supervisor. Instead, what work needs—and remote work in particular—is trust.
I firmly believe that creating software is a craft discipline. Like other craft disciplines it draws on scientific and engineering knowledge, but reaches its greatest heights when it marries that with details about human ergonomics or aesthetic flourishes intended purely to delight.
In a global marketplace where Chinese profits and their future potential dwarf those from any other individual territory, firms will increasingly be driven to acquiesce to the Chinese central state authority.
There has never been a better time to start a software business. At the same time, for certain types of software, there has never been a worse time to start a software business.
Lightbox is a mobile-first, full-featured, traditional (hand-drawn) animation production application/suite. It is what I am focused on building now. I am incredibly excited, and look forward to sharing this adventure with the world.
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James Damore's citations do not support the conclusions he is drawing from them. This makes his findings and proposals for remedies worthless. He has some good ideas, but his presenting them amid so many simply wrong claims means they won't be valued as they should.
Live sports has been viewed as the final frontier in cord cutting. We may now be approaching the tipping point in VODs usurpation of broadcast television.
The cleverness of the 2013 Mac Pro's design (inadvertently?) became more important than performance headroom.
Jony Ive's design aesthetic is fundamentally sculptural, not ergonomic: he makes objects to be beheld, not to be held. Following the passing of Steve Jobs in 2011, there really wasn't anyone at the company to rein him in.
When Siri can replace much of an app's interface, and do so for the multiple apps a user may need to complete a complex task, it raises the question of whether we even need "apps" at all.
On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Tesla Motors unveiled its much awaited "more affordable" fully electric sedan, the Model 3. It began taking pre-orders, with a USD 1,000 deposit required, and within hours had racked up in excess of 100,000. As of this writing, the number is over 276,
As I write this, the 2015 theatrical reboot of the Fantastic Four film adaptations is failing miserably at the box office. Naturally, in an environment where superhero films are the most reliable earners in cinema, this prompts "analyses" and "think pieces" attempting to divine the reason why. And this affords