I read Atul Gawande’s Better: A Surgeon’s Notes On Performance last night. It’s written from a medical perspective, and talks about many of the things that are wrong with medical del… more →
Tom Comeau, Geek Dadwrote 1 month ago: I realized that time is flying when you are busy, and I promised to publish the conclusion from my p … more →
wrote 10 months ago: If what you don’t know can’t hurt you, some folks are practically invulnerable: http:// … more →
wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve ever worked on a significant software development project you’ve probably look … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Just back from the ECCAP in Tokyo where the Dassault Systemes roadmap for V6 combined with V5 … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Last week I conducted another ENOVIA SmarTeam Express training, this time in the Coventry office fro … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I read Atul Gawande’s Better: A Surgeon’s Notes On Performance last night. It’s wr … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison To Google is a look at two maj … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I stumbled into an article in the Washington Post this morning that includes this comment about the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Recently on the Manager Tools forums, I shared some of my favorite quotes. (If you lead or manage pe … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I get 200-300 email messages a day in my three accounts, about two-thirds of them in my STScI (work) … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I previously discussed user-level security. This morning, I ran across this story about system admin … more →
wrote 2 years ago: When I got home last night I checked digg, just to see if there was anything interesting. If you … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I saw this on CNet news More girls joined the classes and, according to Nourbakhsh, they turned out … more →
wrote 2 years ago: An article in the April Communications of the ACM takes an unusually rigorous look at the effect of … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Joe’s comments on the retreat: End of FY05 and start of FY06 was very challenging for the mana … more →
wrote 3 years ago: I didn’t realize it had been most of a week since I last posted. Yikes. Here’s the usual … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Here’s my usual disorganized notes about what I heard/saw today. The starting slide was … more →
wrote 3 years ago: I’ll update this later, but yes, Ivan Rosenberg did come to work with us on the ESS organizati … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Ivan Rosenberg, who is an organizational consultant who worked with Matt Mountain at Gemini, is comi … more →