Posted in Uncategorized, Software, Strategy on Jul 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Picture the pool of available skilled workers as an inverted pyramid.
At the bottom of the inverted pyramid are the hard core software and computer engineers. The hard core workers create the basic stuff necessary for computers, such as compilers and operating systems.
The next level up are architects or engineers. Architects build large-scale […]
Posted in Economics on Jul 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Ever since Tom Evslin posted his comments Energy Vision, I have not been able to focus on anything else. Thoughts and questions have been buzzing about inside my head, exasperated further by my two-hour daily commute.
Here are the basic numbers on our oil:
The world consumes 84.5 million barrels of oil per day (Mb/day)
The United States […]
Posted in Books, Economics on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I had the opportunity to read Jerry Z. Muller’s The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought (Knopf: 2002). I highly recommend it. Muller gives a great overview of key philosophers and their impact on capitalism. I took away a key conclusion: The essence of capitalism and its success does not change because […]
Posted in Management, Managing engineers on Jul 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
Since 1997, I have been building software in what would now be called an agile development methodology. I am an avid believer in fix time box delivery cycles of 90 days. Half the people argue that it should be longer and the other half argue that it should be shorter. To me that means 90 […]