- I’ve been meaning for ages to write about Jim Womack’s article on Respect for People, but I don’t seem to be getting around to it, so I’ll mention it here.
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A TED talk on underwater astonishments; if the beginning doesn’t capture your fancy or you’re short on time, go to the 4:20 mark.
- Everything you’d want to know about the ghost movement algorithms in Pac-Man
- The Cute Cat Theory.
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An explanation of how frighteningly easily segregation can appear.
- A collection of problems to work through if you’re looking for TDD practice.
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Your daily dose of randomness: Salaryman Man.
- John Gruber and Merlin Mann on building a site that’s successful both personally and financially; well worth listening to.
- Very interesting discussion between Jonathan Blow (Braid), Rod Humble (The Marriage), and Jason Rohrer (Passage). That page is behind a paid subscription barrier, I think, but you can download it from iTunes by going to the IGN Games Podcasts feed and looking for the To Catch an Editor episode dated 3/24/09.
- A bit of fun playing with your browser. Hopefully it will pop up in a new window: it will resize the window it’s playing in, but for a good cause. (Via Vagari.)
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My problem with Jim Womack’s article is that I’ve seen/heard plenty of stuff like this before, but I have yet to find an organization (that I’ve been a part of) to ever take it seriously. That’s my jaded side. My more positive side sees that I need to pass that letter along and hope it hits home somewhere.
Anyway, the video on segregation is pretty cool. He didn’t sell me on his book, but it’s a neat exercise nonetheless.
4/13/2009 @ 7:22 pm
I’ve just started experimenting at work with using A3 reports to do problem solving, which is a concrete technique for doing the sort of thing that Womack talks about in his book. Far too early to see how it will pan out, though.
4/13/2009 @ 8:08 pm
I’m a low level peon (copy editor) working for Lexis Nexis, so I have little influence, but my boss is a good man and he may actually be interested.
4/14/2009 @ 2:47 pm
Cool! If your boss gets curious enough to try out those ideas, I highly recommend the book _Managing to Learn_ by John Shook on the topic.
4/14/2009 @ 2:54 pm