Category: Thoughts
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TechHub London
Last Wednesday I visited TechHub London, a sort of social IT/web startup/entrepreneur incubator. The place is quite spartan, but its purpose is not being cool, but being useful to its users. It has a main shared area where members just drop their notebooks and work, network and share ideas. Another area is reserved to some…
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Metawork
There’s nothing worse than metawork, or work and tasks that are necessary for the real work to go on. The thing that drives me crazy is that metawork is intrinsically able to multiply itself. When you’re almost done, something new pops up, in an endless sequence of paperwork and phone calls.
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Understanding Developers: An Insider Look
Developers are easy to manage. You just shovel intriguing problems towards them, and they’re fine. They just don’t want to even hear about anything else (professionally speaking, at least). I’m just like that. We developers tend to have two different functioning modes. The first is called, more or less by everyone, The Zone. Whilst we…
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Demobomb Marketing
A new marketing technique: visiting PC and consumer electronics shops and opening your website on all demo PCs.
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On The Importance of Real Identities on The Internet
I’ve grown up sick of nicknames on the Internet. Everyone is able to post any random junk behind a nickname. It takes a minimum bit of courage to publish something exposing your real name, so for me it becomes a matter of credibility. Look at Julian Assange. He could have done everything anonymously, but who…