Friday, May 20, 2022

Coping

 I struggle a lot with humanity's failure to simplify things.

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Harvesting New Software

 Designing software is a lot like picking blueberries.  You have take your time and wander around the subject observing from many different angles.

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Logic and Parable

 Logic addresses a group of people who can all agree on a set of axioms and delivers them to a single conclusion.

Logic extends comprehension of one’s current context and binds multiple individuals into a coherence.


Parable addresses a group of people who may not agree on a common set of axioms and delivers them to multiple diverse conclusions.

Parable illuminates a larger context with new dimensions and more possibilities.


Monday, December 7, 2020

Leadership

Before you command others that they do things,  take on the labor of foundation and bridge building.

Prepare a way for them. 



Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Margin of Respect

Respect  =  Cost / Price * Quality

Reducing costs and quality while maintaining or increasing prices reduces value and respect.


Monday, September 23, 2019

Monday, October 16, 2017

Capital Requirements for Quality

In order to produce quality, capitalism requires love and respect just as much as profit and financing.

Friday, June 30, 2017

Software Development Goals

It is a common misconception that a software developers' job is to write lots of new lines of code.

The reality is that it is a software developer's job to eliminate as many lines of code as possible.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Defining Quality

Quality is resistance to failure.

Which raises two more questions; what is failure, and how is it resisted.

The Cost of Progress

  Increasing efficiency often decreases durability.

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