Why is it that software specifications are always written so horribly? In fact, almost all technical writing is bad: Documentation, RFPs, proposals, y…

I’ve added another couple books: Gig, which I finished a couple months ago (and which is a good swimming-pool type book—you dive in every once in a wh…

This is another one of those things that crystallized gradually, because it kept popping up in several situations over a few days.

I think the fi…

A number of people have asked me for the custom code that I run on my site, on top of OpenACS.

What’s been holding me back is that it’s really cu…

You know the feeling when something just happens to pop up again and again? You walk by a bookstore and notice some book. Then you see that same book …

I have a love/hate relationship with standards.

On the one side, my human side wants me to reject the idea that it’s about standards. It’s much mor…

For several years, I’ve been saying that the genius of American business is that it knows how to make stupid people do something valuable, as epitomiz…

Added a couple more book reviews: The Mythical Man-Month which I actually read about a year ago but forgot to review, and The Art of Possibility which…

Next time you’re reading something, try to understand what the text is really saying. Imagine you are that person inside the text. How does it feel? H…