Magical Thinking
Fred Brooks wrote "No Silver Bullet" in 1987, an essay on intractability of complexity and...
society
conjectures and observations about modern culture
Software Maxims
I've learned many things over the past thirty years and some lessons play out in...
Rewarding Lies
In 2007-8, Infosys rubber-stamped several teams with skills they didn't have and delivered some world-class...
Twitter And Click Fraud
Twitter’s revenue jumps 28 percent in its first post-Trump quarter
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/...
Boise State And Mormon Conspiracies
The truth is rarely simple. People round off reality to fit familiar stereotypes.
I worked at Boise...
CogCon
CogCon is shorthand for "Continuity of Government", a set of mechanisms to
insure that the...