Archive for the “quotes” category
Well Said
by paul on September 18, 2011
One company that just launched at Disrupt is trying to fix medical bills. Another wants to bring fresh produce from farmers direct to households. Another company built the universal translator from Star Trek. Good software developers invent the future. This (…)
Creating things…
by paul on September 5, 2011
When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create. Why the Lucky Stiff
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
by paul on August 20, 2011
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. From Wikipedia This could be quite possibly one of the (…)
People who can code…
by paul on August 19, 2011
People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to (…)
Be an Octopus!
by paul on March 11, 2010
From Ryan at Untold Entertainment: “At the end of his talk, Dan painted a very bleak picture of the Flash games industry, one where ongoing consolidation leads to big, unstoppable companies, and Flash developers serve at the behest of their (…)
“I don’t feel like it What’s it? Why do you need to feel like something in order to do the work? They call it work because it’s difficult, not because it’s something you need to feel like. Very few people (…)
