A good reason to be part of communities of practice. From Learning Theories: Etienne Wenger summarizes Communities of Practice (CoP) as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do…
A good reason to be part of communities of practice. From Learning Theories: Etienne Wenger summarizes Communities of Practice (CoP) as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do…
My reaction to the Common Crawl was one big WOW! Common Crawl produces and maintains a repository of web crawl data that is openly accessible to everyone. The crawl currently covers 5 billion pages and the repository includes valuable metadata.…
We have been experimenting with some ideas at in50hrs and 32hourstartup and here is the latest incarnation of one of those ideas – Sponsored Projects. Why Sponsored Projects? Sponsored Projects allow you to work with developers in the region to…
In this article Gilmore, Shipwire’s VP for marketing and business development, provides useful tips for partner development. At the end he touches upon the payoff of blogging: “We want to be a thought leader,” Gilmore says. “We want to be…
I don’t think I will ever stop mentioning Steve Jobs in some way. If you are a product guy, SJ is your Product God. From Jony Ives, on Steve and ideas. You see, I think he better than anyone understood…
I gathered a bunch of tweets tagged #whyiwrite and created a tag cloud and made it public here. I did a few edits: Removed #whyIwrite tags and keywords Removed write and variants like writes, writing The tweets I gathered are…
Quote from Hamming’s talk transcript: When your vision of what you want to do is what you can do single-handedly, then you should pursue it. The day your vision, what you think needs to be done, is bigger than what…
I really like this part (which occurs in the Question and Answers part) in Hamming’s talk. On brainstorming: Once that was a very popular thing, but it seems not to have paid off. For myself I find it desirable to…
If you bump into an important problem, would you recognize it? Or will you say “Pardon me” and just move on? I am afraid that I might have been doing the latter. This old essay is a fascinating read. It…
Quotes from Steve Jobs: You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together.…
