Technological unemployment is the notion that even as innovation creates new opportunities, it destroys old jobs. Automobiles, for example, created entirely new industries (and convenience), but eliminated jobs like train engineers and buggy builders. As the pace of technology change grows faster, the impact of large scale job elimination increases, and some fear we’ve passed […]
Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, Makers, and many other other awesome books, came to Portland to promote his newest book Homeland. He spoke to a standing room only crowd at Powell’s Bookstore. He started by asking if people wanted a reading or a presentation, and everyone picked the presentation. These are my raw notes […]
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win belongs to that rare category of books: a business novel. It’s written as fiction but it teaches us something serious. The most well known book in this category is The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. The […]
This was a highly visual presentation (as you’d expect), and so there’s only so much I could capture in notes. I suggest you check out Des Traynor’s blog: http://blog.intercom.io Data Visualization Des Traynor hard to make visualizations better than text especially hard to make them work good on mobile, desktop, etc. Be clear first and clever […]
Discussing Design: The Art of Critique Speakers: Aaron Irizarry, Adam Connor #wvpdx webvisions 2012Slides: http://t.co/u9mMXXBl What is critique? critique and feedback are not the same thing. feedback: gut response. instance reaction to something. critique is an ongoing process: built on refining to create a better product. it needs to be presented in such a way that […]
When I’m not writing science fiction novels, I work on web apps for a largish company*. This week was pretty darn exciting: we learned on Monday afternoon that we needed to scale up to a peak volume of 10,000 simultaneous visitors by Thursday morning at 5:30am. This post will be about what we did, what […]
Willamette Writers January 3rd, 2012 Meeting Christina Katz author of The Writer’s Workout: 366 Tips, Task & Techniques From Your Writing Career Coach Five Flabby Habits to Lose & Five Healthy Habits to Keep Pitched at the Willamette Writers Conference. Stood up in front of 50 people. The editor from writer’s digest was there. Gave […]
Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse and How to Survive a Robot Uprising spoke in Portland, Oregon at the monthly meeting of Willamette Writers. Wilson’s novel Robopocalypse is being made into a film by Steven Spielberg. I’m particularly interested in Wilson’s Robopocalypse, because it is so similar in theme to my first two novels, Avogadro Corp, and AI Apocalypse. […]
The Best is the Enemy of the Good: Similarities in Perfection Between Magic and Design Jared Spool @jmspool Reed Spool demo: magic show by reed spool, manipulation tricks Thurston – World’s Famous Magician first person to do large stage magic would travel with nine rail cars Early magicians and the world of magic have a […]
Gamestorming Dave Gray – Dachis Group, VizThink, XPLANE co-founder @davegray James Macanufo – XPLANE @macgeo Sunni Brown – Ogilvy @sunnibrown #gamestorming imagine it’s your job to facilitate a meeting. the stakes are to solve global warming. you only have a day. you have the people in the room. what do you do? options the boredom […]
