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1 month ago

in Fixing finance, part 326. on The Park Paradigm
I just read the Marchionne interview and I agree he talks a great game. We're going to hear a lot more from him and about him in the next few months, I guess.

A word of warning for him (and you?) from an aging opsimath: I don't believe there's a causal link between age and stick-in-the-mudness. There may be a statistical correlation but we know that's not the same thing.

If you only look for talent and open-mindedness among the young you are committing the same sin as those who only look at one sex or a narrow ethnic subset and that's not good business.
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parkparadigm Completely agree that age - using the traditional "what-year-were-you-born-in" algorithm - is at best a highly imperfect metric for calibrating adaptibility and open-mindedness - which are really at the heart of the issue. The correlation isn't zero, but goes up very considerably if you use the well worn "age-is-how-old-you-act-and-feel" adage. Indeed, I've met 25 years olds that would have an equivalent age of 60 using this test, and conversely 60 year olds that have magnificently retained and even enhanced their 'childlike wonder' (to paraphrase Fake Steve Jobs!)

Indeed the Holy Grail in terms of finding ideal managers and leaders are these more experienced and wise aged twenty-somethings. (Of course I'm totally talking my own aging book here too!)

Perhaps what we need is some sort of scale or test analogous to 'dog years' to be able to articulate this idea easily: "He's 48 but 27 in innovation years..." or something like that!

1 month ago

in Disqus comments on Phil Dawes' Stuff
I'm loving the comments thread for this post. Can't decide whether to get my upholstery cleaned or do something about my fast food obesity.
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phildawes Thanks for the pointer - I've cleaned up the spam and regrettably added some moderation

2 years ago

in The path from specificity to usefulness on Phil Dawes' Stuff
Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Maybe you couldn't see the capcha by design...

2 years ago

in Entrepreneurs in the workplace on Phil Dawes' Stuff
I'm told the internets are all about connecting stuff together using tubes. Here are a couple of connections for this:

The Open Source Business?
The Original Open Source Company

2 years ago

in Three Management Methods on Phil Dawes' Stuff
Episodes 1-3 have been on the mark but not earth-shattering. I await further episodes with a little shiver of anticipation - I don't believe Joel would have started on this without feeling he had something important to say.

2 years ago

in Application UIs - automating the CRUD on Phil Dawes' Stuff
We will agree to differ on the size of the sweet spot.

To answer your question, high transaction volumes (if they arise from human input) should have a fundamental bearing on UI design. In this case you are designing for productivity. The challenges differ depending on whether your users are rapid data-entry clerks or simply the millions of great unwashed who want to use your website and don't want to spend all day learning how to do so.

In either case it is worth investing in an optimised UI and not making do with an auto-generated one.

2 years ago

in Application UIs - automating the CRUD on Phil Dawes' Stuff
Automatically-generated or fully dynamic UIs may be a good way of prototyping the functionality of an app. Only if the app is only ever used by techies for low transaction volumes then you might consider putting the UI into production.

I have NEVER seen an auto-generated UI that you would want to give to actual users. Don't make the mistake of thinking that dabbledb does this - it is a meticulously hand-crafted UI for a specific set of functions. It is partially dynamic to reflect the configuration that users choose - this is a good thing.
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