words from a tech mavenAn area of great frustration in today’s economy is the recruiting of high-tech professionals, particularly in computer-related fields. It is generally recognized that the system, such as it is, is broken: one posting on a job board can bring thousands of responses, forcing recruiters to rely on simple keyword searches instead of actually reading resumes [...]
To be an innovator, learn to think like a designer.
Design is not a frill, or just a matter of aesthetics. You can design, for example, a chair so as to be aesthetically pleasing, in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, or Eero Saarinen, or Le Corbusier, or whomever, but it may not be comfortable to [...]
You may think I’m from another planet (and I might even agree with you), but I see no problem in finding ways to explain technical concepts in terms that non-techies (i.e., real people) can understand. To prove it, here’s an example. Some years ago I was writing a technology column for a weekly local West [...]
Abraham Lincoln is said to have posed the rhetorical question: “If we call a tail a leg, how many legs does a pig have?” Five? “No, four. Because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
Consider what happens when we try to deal with new technological concepts in terms of pre-existing legal, [...]