It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology. . . and you can build software then, around the user.
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.
Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.
When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"
Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.