I totally stole this from Bre Pettis, but it’s awesome so worth repeating
The Cult of Done Manifesto
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you [...]
You want to be successful
I don’t know what you want to do with your day, week or life. However I am sure that whatever it is, you want to be successful at it. The best way to achieve this is not to obsess on strategy, but to practice making tactical decisions.
Stategy and Tactics
Most advice talks about [...]
Paul Erdos is famous in the world of mathematics. He spent his life travelling America, finding mathematicians to befriend and helping them with their work.
In order to honour his contributions, the “Erdos Number” was created. Anyone who collaborated with Erdos on a paper has an Erdos Number of 1, any of their collaborators have an Erdos Number [...]
What do you do when you have one person who is the repository of knowledge for a critical part of your project, infrastructure or similar.
You need some way to address this situation, otherwise that poor person will go mad dealing with other peoples problems, never feel free to go on holiday, and if they get [...]
The first million you ever make is the hardest – or so the saying goes.
This is not only true, but its true at any scale. The first £100 you make, is the hardest. The first £1000 you make is the hardest. The first £10k you make is the hardest.
This is because the hard thing is [...]
I just witnessed one of the most interesting events I have ever seen on a London Bus.
This was a ride on a double decker bus on a Saturday afternoon. On this particular trip there was a crowd of youths on the top deck, making a lot of noise as groups of teenagers typically do. A [...]
I just came back from ScrumGathering in Munich, and one of the hot topics was teams. How they are structured, and how to make them most efficient.
Scrum states that teams should be self-organised, and this will allow them to form into the most efficient team possible given the set of people in them. But it [...]
Gwyn and I presented our Bamboo Toolbox at the Munich Scrum Gathering on Tuesday.
The gathering was my first Scrum Gathering, and was one of the most enjoyable, friendly, and all round rewarding events I have been to.
We had the presentation slot just after lunch on the second (of three) days, and just before the board [...]
This recent post by Ola argues that if you plan to write big software, you have already lost. He is talking about why we should not write projects with many many lines of code. To me, this is a bit of a truism. Is it not always the case that doing the same thing is [...]
I’ve been REALLY looking forward to Google wave, and got my account last night. So far I have only had a few minutes to play, but enough to form an initial impression.
It has a huge amount of potential, but there are one hell of a lot of rough edges to polish up first. I want [...]
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