What We Learned In The New Economy

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Have We Learned from the New Economy?

Have We Learned from the New Economy? 02/19/2004 12:41 PM

Being learned

Being learned 01/07/2004 02:01 PM
Old River Bill really knows inland workboats. Besides exercising his novel system of punctuation, Bill makes model tugboats and is a part of an avid community of workboat modelers. You can find out everything you ever wanted to know about how real work is done on rivers on how the hell we move 100's of thousands of tons of crap around the country every day.

"Everything I Learned at MIT"

"Everything I Learned at MIT" 07/14/2004 03:22 PM

What We Learned from Google's IPO

What We Learned from Google's IPO 09/01/2004 09:54 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Sep 1 2004 2:26PM GMT

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
To wrap up my week of upgrading my mother's iMac, I thought I'd mention a few things I'll keep in mind when I next set up a Macintosh for a less-than-computer-savvy user. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Today I learned

Today I learned 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
Today I learned that IKEA bags are really handy for carrying car tires. Today I learned that car tires are...

This weekend, I learned... (09:27 PM)

This weekend, I learned... (09:27 PM) 02/26/2003 03:39 PM
After spending a weekend snowboarding in the Poconos, I've learned a few things: Snowboarding in the rain roX0rs: nobody else is on the hill. Pennsylvania doesn't spend

Lessons to be Learned

Lessons to be Learned 09/10/2002 03:41 AM

You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned

You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned 10/29/2003 10:14 AM
TheForce.Net has the first official online info about the newest Star Wars TCG expansion, The Empire Strikes Back. The expansion is due to hit the shelves in November, and will include some new game mechanics. Read all about it right here.

Lessons Learned From Blaster

Lessons Learned From Blaster 06/20/2004 11:59 PM

How I Learned French in One Year

How I Learned French in One Year 12/30/2004 02:30 PM
Riding on the coat-tails of an earlier article about emigrating to other countries, I present to you a small summary of my experience rapidly learning French to pass a standardized test for Canadian immigration. Since I live in the middle of the US, far removed from anything resembling a Francophone environment, I had to resort to various online and offline resources to accomplish my goal, managing to learn enough to score as "advanced" in several categories in just 10 months. Even if you don't wish to emigrate, this article may be useful, as I go into full detail describing the techniques and methods I used. Or, at the very least, read and be amused.

How they learned to love the bomb

How they learned to love the bomb 03/29/2005 11:48 AM
Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.

A Hard Lesson Learned

A Hard Lesson Learned 03/14/2005 04:35 PM

Well the nightmare that all of us geeks feared the most, happened this morning. I walked into my office and found that it had been broken into. The computers were all taken and the printers, copier and some accessories were also stolen. I had backups of the important files, but a lot of small things are missing, settings, ftp accounts, and the most important thing of all, my privacy.

It will be a couple days before the insurance settles the claim and we can replace the hardware and software, but my worry is that I had passwords and account information available for any trained hacker to find. Sure I had the passwords and I did not save key rings in browsers, but the fact is, it can be found out. I learned a hard lesson. I will be encrypting my hard drive from this time forward. My data will be secure, I will have a call home program installed in case the thieves fire up the system and try to get online.

I would like to here from the geeks out there as to what measures I need to take to make sure that my information is as safe as I can keep it. Let's hear your feedback. I'll be back with more news as soon as I get my computers back at the office.

Everything I Need To Know About Web
Design I Learned Watching Oz

Everything I Need To Know About Web
Design I Learned Watching Oz 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
Making it as a web designer is like staying alive in the slammer. So before you sharpen your Photoshop skills or crack open that new book on crafting more effective customer experiences, you'd be well advised to catch a few reruns of HBO's Oz. ALA system designer Brian Alvey points out the parallels between a successful career in web design and the popular prison drama.

What McNamara Learned from Viet Nam

What McNamara Learned from Viet Nam 01/26/2004 03:00 PM
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. -- Mark Twain As much as it might have served my rhetorical purposes, I have been reluctant to draw parallels between our involvements in Viet Nam and Iraq. Most such comparisons seem invidious and over-wrought. Still, in a compelling January 24 column in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Doug Saunders cites a list of lessons that Robert McNamara said (in his 1995 book Retrospect) he had gleaned from his soul-searching autopsy of the American defeat in Viet Nam. I repeat them here for the purposes of discussion. Based on the course of the Iraqi invasion thus far, some of them seem chillingly familiar. The question arises, if we are repeating some or all of the same errors, how can we proceed from this point to a more positive result than we obtained in Southeast Asia. McNamara's List: We misjudged then -- and we have since -- the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries . . . and we exaggerated the dangers to the United States of their actions. We viewed the people and leaders of South Vietnam in terms of our own experience. . . . We totally misjudged the political forces within the country. We underestimated the power of nationalism to motivate a people to fight and die for their beliefs and values. Our judgments of friend and foe alike reflected our profound ignorance of the history, culture, and politics of the people in the area, and the personalities and habits of their leaders. We failed then -- and have since -- to recognize the limitations of modern, high-technology military equipment, forces and doctrine. . . . We failed as well to adapt our military tactics to the task of winning the hearts and minds of people from a totally different culture. We failed to draw Congress and the American people into a full and frank discussion and debate of the pros and cons of a large-scale military involvement . . . before we initiated the action. After the action got under way and unanticipated events forced us off our planned course . . . we did not fully explain what was happening and why we were doing what we did. We did not recognize that neither our people nor our leaders are omniscient. Our judgment of what is in another people's or country's best interest should be put to the test of open discussion in international forums. We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose. We did not hold to the principle that U.S. military action . . . should be carried out only in conjunction with multinational forces supported fully (and not merely cosmetically) by the international community. We failed to recognize that in international affairs, as in other aspects of life, there may be problems for which there are no immediate solutions. . . . At times, we may have to live with an imperfect, untidy world. Underlying many of these errors lay our failure to organize the top echelons of the executive branch to deal effectively with the extraordinarily complex range of political and military issues. By the way, Saunders says that, in a phone conversation with McNamara, the latter rendered the following opinion of the Iraqi invasion, "We're misusing our influence. It's just wrong what we're doing. It's morally wrong, it's politically wrong, it's economically wrong." If that is so, what do we do now?...

The IPO market has learned useful
lessons.

The IPO market has learned useful
lessons. 12/19/2003 07:33 PM
On the other hand, December has seen more IPOs than any month since November 2000, and surefire blockbusters like Google and Salesforce.com are slated for next ...

MT Upgrade: lessons learned

MT Upgrade: lessons learned 09/04/2004 03:45 PM
FTP'ing many small files is sloooooow, so it's important you copy the right set (MT 3.11), instead of re-copying the existing version (MT 2.6) - oops ;-) To FTP files to your server, don't ever use WS_FTP again. The damn thing steals focus on every completed file, which made it almost impossible to do anything else during a large... (225 words)

What Steve Wozniak Learned From Failure

What Steve Wozniak Learned From Failure 09/13/2004 06:34 PM
The Apple II was a hit. The Cloud Nine universal remote was not. Here's what Steve Wozniak learned about creativity, and what it means for his latest venture. By Evan I. Schwartz, HBS Working Knowledge (via MyAppleMenu)

How Everything I Know About Web
Marketing I Learned from Your Local Gas
Station

How Everything I Know About Web
Marketing I Learned from Your Local Gas
Station 01/05/2005 06:47 PM

What George Bush learned from the
Democrats

What George Bush learned from the
Democrats 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
The privatization of Social Security will be a centerpiece of George W. Bush's State of the Union address Wednesday night. But a funny thing happened on the way to the joint session of Congress. The White House has talked to some Democrats, and it has learned a thing or two about Social Security.

Things that I learned about driving in
Japan

Things that I learned about driving in
Japan 08/20/2004 10:11 AM

Just as Japanese society is more intricate, if less varied, than U.S. society, the topography of settled Japan is more intricate than the U.S.  Where we would say "this area is too broken up by mountains and inlets so we'll build towns elsewhere" the Japanese don't have that option.  The result is an amazing number of bridges and tunnels.  I have driven through more tunnels in three weeks and 4000 km. here than in my previous 24 years of driving cars.  If you're a fan of civil engineer you'll giggle with childlike wonder every 20 miles or so as you come across a new suspension bridge, elevated road, or new tunnel.

Being illiterate is a serious impediment to navigation when you know where you want to go and robs you of the opportunity to decide whether or not a previously unknown roadside attraction is worth the stop.  Even with limited Japanese, however, asking directions is very effective.  One hundred percent of the time the person whom I stopped either knew where the place was or was able to figure it out after consulting a map.  Not once was I given bad directions.  Twenty five percent of the time the person asked would take a detour and lead me to the destination.  Twenty five percent of the time the person asked would produce a map or atlas, mark it up and give it to me (scored a complete 100-page detailed street atlas for the island of Hokkaido in this manner--sadly all in Kanji except for a few route numbers but subsequently very useful).

Gas costs 2X as much as in the U.S. but the rental car is nearly 2X as efficient as my minivan so the cost of a fill-up is about the same.  The price in Japan includes two attendants who pump the gas, clean the windows, walk into the street to stop traffic as you're leaving, and bow from the waist as you drive away.

Japan essentially has no highways.  This is one of the world's most densely populated countries with  approximately 335 people per square kilometer, about the same as Israel, and more than India's 320 per square km.  For an American, coming from a country with 31 people per square kilometer, it is hard to understand how these folks get by with a network of 2-lane roads and a couple of arterial 4-lane expressways.  Even when a local highway goes through a town that is mile after mile of fast food, supermarkets, Vegas-sized pachinko parlors, etc. it won't get widened beyond 1 lane in each direction.  This plus the heavy traffic results in ridiculously low average speeds, much lower than the 40, 50, and 60 kilometer per hour limits that prevail on most roads.

Such roads as the Japanese have are the apotheosis of that type of road.  It might be a shoulderless 2-lane road but it is the best damn shoulderless 2-lane road in the world.  Despite winter freezes you will never drive over a pothole.  Overhanging poles with arrows point to the edge of the travel lane so that the snowplows can be exact.  Solar panels in those poles charge up batteries all day so that they can flash with LEDs at night, reminding drivers of where the curves lead so that you don't have to watch the white lines in your headlights as carefully.  Every curve is signalled with strange white patterns painted on the pavement as you approach the curve.  If a curve is sharp there will be a sign telling you exactly how sharp, e.g., "R=100m".  If a brief section goes uphill you will be told exactly how steep, e.g., "grade=3.6%".

Given the excellence of the roads, the heavy traffic, and the low speeds one can't help wondering how the Japanese became the world's best engineers and builders of high-performance cars?  A 1935 Hudson Terraplane would be more than adequate for getting around Japan.  Even in Hokkaido there would be no way to stretch the legs of a Mazda RX-8 or Honda/Acura NSX.

Drivers here are highly skilled but not especially observant of the official rules.  The speed limit on the mostly empty toll expressways is 80 kph but plenty of folks go 120 or faster.  People try not to be the third car through a red light.  Parking is simple.  You stop the car wherever you feel like, turn on the hazard lights, and walk away.

And the last thing that I learned about driving in Japan... When the policeman waves you over to the side of the road and says "Speedo" he is not interested in seeing you change into your latest European-style swimwear.

Lessons Learned from Eye Tracking
Studies

Lessons Learned from Eye Tracking
Studies 03/19/2005 02:41 AM

Investing Lessons Learned in College

Investing Lessons Learned in College 06/10/2004 02:30 PM
Here are four things you might have forgotten you'd learned.

8 Things I have Learned As An Internet
Marketer

8 Things I have Learned As An Internet
Marketer 05/04/2004 10:34 PM
WebDevInfo May 5 2004 2:15AM GMT

5 things I learned from spam today

5 things I learned from spam today 09/20/2004 06:56 PM
How to make my male organ 4 to 6 times bigger How to order any drug online without a prescription...

Julia Lerman: How I Learned to Love .Net

Julia Lerman: How I Learned to Love .Net 04/26/2004 11:51 AM
Our sister site DevSource is featuring another fun read. This time, it's an interview with ".Net Rockstar" Julia Lerman.

'04 Graduates Learned Lesson in
Practicality

'04 Graduates Learned Lesson in
Practicality 05/29/2004 03:08 PM
Experts say graduates' strategic, pragmatic approach to entering the work force speaks of a coming wave of adults bent on entering the mainstream and staying there.

A browser lesson learned from Microsoft

A browser lesson learned from Microsoft 08/30/2004 08:39 AM
ZDNet Aug 30 2004 1:10PM GMT

Lessons learned from online journals

Lessons learned from online journals 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
There are lessons to be learned from the first round of online journals, hammered out over time in the private spheres of close friends and associates. Many from that time have moved on to other things, but their legacy remains at the core of blogging's foundations. Write for an audience of friends. When you have an audience of a million people, there's no way to anticipate what the best viewpoint to reach them all is; remember that your writing is an expression of your viewpoint, and express it as such. Express your viewpoint as if you were talking to a group of friends: clear, to the point, and perhaps a dash of humor. Aesthetics speak a thousand words. The appearance of a site frames the content contained within, setting the tone for the reader. If your color schemes makes it...

Wired News goes behind the scenes of the
conventions - what we learned

Wired News goes behind the scenes of the
conventions - what we learned 09/01/2004 01:26 PM

Adam L. Penenberg at Wired News just published a great article covering the lessons learned by bloggers (and me personally) at the DNC, and the changes we made to the Election Watch 2004 site, including the reorganization of our analysis into the Liberal Politics Attention Index™ and the Conservativ e Politics Attention Index™.

Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test

Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test 11/11/2003 06:54 PM

Mid Year SEO Checkup - Lessons Learned
2002

Mid Year SEO Checkup - Lessons Learned
2002 06/26/2002 01:02 PM
This business has been so fluid the last couple of years, that you have to be a full time WebmasterWorld member just to keep up.

What I Learned as a Writer from Doing
Usability and Interface Testing

What I Learned as a Writer from Doing
Usability and Interface Testing 06/05/2002 05:52 AM

Random PHP Trivia or How I Learned to
Love the . Operator

Random PHP Trivia or How I Learned to
Love the . Operator 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Random PHP Trivia or How I Learned to Love the . Operator I'm starting to really gear up for my PHPCON presentation on PHP Subtleties -- you know the little things you ought to know but don't. How many times in PHP have you done something like this: echo "$x"; Now while it is slightly more difficult to write this: echo $x . ""; But the net benefit of this is roughly a 50% speed up. Disclaimer: Very, very, very crude benchmarking here using simple microtime() and a calculator. Now you might think that this would give a greater speedup since I'm using single quotes now, not double quotes: echo $x . ''; But the improvement is actually miniscule at best. Maybe 1%. And that, Gentle Reader, is how I learned to love the . operator. Note: The . operator is string append so the conclusion of this little piece is that string appending is substantially faster than string interpretation (when you have "$x

Three Things I Learned About Screen
Reader Users

Three Things I Learned About Screen
Reader Users 08/06/2004 07:51 AM
As many of you know, I'm currently working on my HCI master's thesis which is investigating the convergence of accessibility...

"lesson learned: make sure your name
isn't mike rowe"

"lesson learned: make sure your name
isn't mike rowe" 01/19/2004 07:16 AM

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part III

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part III 03/06/2004 02:09 AM

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part V

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part V 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Geek lessons learned from
suit-productivity book

Geek lessons learned from
suit-productivity book 12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Cory Doctorow: Merlin Mann's 43 Folders weblog is a site where he's been chronicling his efforts to adapt the lessons of the stupendous productivity book Getting Things Done (I've bought and given away 10 copies since reading it earlier this year) to a technological workflow: in other words, he's porting suit productivity to geek lifestyles.

He's just posted part one of a roundup of his lessons learned from a year of pursuing the lessons of Getting Things Done (more to come tomorrow). It's really good stuff, and it's helped me make sense of my last decade's work.

In a previous life as a producer and project manager for some good-sized web projects, I once approached my work with a completely baseless optimism and sense of possibility that I had absolutely no business feeling--let alone foisting off on others as way to guide big projects. Especially given how extravagantly long-range I now realize most of those projects' aspirations really were. Yikes. Simpler times.

The reality is that projects change, and projects break; that's what they do. It's their job. The smaller your project is, and the shorter the distance there is between "here" and "there," the less likely you are to have to chuck it and start over for reasons you couldn't possibly have foreseen when you were knitting up them fancy GANTT charts for Q3/2007.

You know how it works with The Big Plan. Projects kick off, a series of heavy documents with 4-color covers is produced and distributed, everyone gets pumped for a week or two, and then somewhere, somehow, along the way, changes start to rain down, and the pretty, pretty plans for the next 3/6/9/12 months go completely to hell, often taking team morale and productivity right along with them. Say what you will about the volatility of go-go dotcoms and the nature of venture IT projects, but two bald facts won't wipe away: things always change, and Big Project Plans make great door stops.

Since picking up GTD, I've gotten more comfortable with employing informal, "back of the envelope" planning to derive very short-term goals and actions. Clients in particular seem to really like this. It helps them keep a handle on the tab, plus they all enjoy seeing one piece of the work rolling out every month or so. All without the need for endless commitments, rosaries, or finger crossing.

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