Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Matthew Rogers back in 2010 – Why Diaspora will fail: „Facebook isn’t evil by accident. Its massive numbers of users allow it to be that way. If the majority of people actually cared enough about their online privacy, then they’d leave Facebook.“ (Via Andreas Schiffler – Re: Replacing Facebook.)

Chade-Meng Tan – Do the right thing, wait to get fired: „I recently learned that one reason he was so successful was because he was unafraid to speak the unpleasant truth to his superiors to their faces.“ (Via Brian Fitzpatrick.)

Stijn Debrouwere – The trouble with usability experts: „Some engineers make unusable software because they’re clueless about interaction design. Many others just make unusable software because we don’t give them enough time to do a proper job. Hiring a usability expert won’t solve that.“

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Marketing to your own team: „It’s a good lesson: You’re not just sending out a message externally, you’re sending one out internally too. If your employees don’t believe it, the whole plan falls apart.“

Natasha Gabriel – Content marketing is not enough — The fulfillment gap: „Too many companies focus on the on the point of sale as the key milestone, doing everything they can to close a sale. This is a flawed mindset. Instead of just trying to get money from customers, companies need to focus on getting…

Tim Bray – Reading Feeds: „Speed and polish and good defaults win; how many times do we have to re-learn this?“

Gojko Adzic on a presentation by Michael Feathers – The Mistake at the Heart of Agile: „Both scrum and XP had the same organisation context – protecting the development organisation from the rest of the business. […] Keith Braithwaite said these ideas were implemented to give developers “a safe place to work” in the face…

George Reese at O’Reilly Community – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs: „The data in your API calls should not look like highly normalized representations of database tables. They should represent a model of the data in a way that makes sense to API consumers. When you map APIs to your…

Seth Godin – Caring: „If you want to build a caring organization, you need to fill it with caring people and then get out of their way.“

Jack Vinson – No multitasking for teams either: „[Geoffrey] Moore mentioned a common problem of companies: they ask project teams to focus on more than one thing at a time, and that this kills the team’s capability to do anything well. […] You get the picture: each project has to be focused on one goal.…