January 2010
Cutting ties with my old friend Microsoft →
For over twenty years I’ve relied on Microsoft products and services for my home computing. But for web development (the only type that really matters to me) Windows is more of a hindrance…
A Vision of What’s to Come →
Bioelectric powered tatoo computers may sound outlandish to us now, but in a single generation the rate of technological change is about to sky rocket. There are many contributing…
The Ideal Computer Converges on Invisible →
After watching the much anticipated release of the iPad, I had thoughts of advances I would build into a ground breaking computer. Why not incorporate gesture interface, projection…
We don’t need no stinkin’ Bubbles, Intrinsic &... →
The genesis for this economic thought riff is an interview of a gentleman who is a big proponent of the Chicago school of economics, Eugene Fama. I was alerted to it yesterday by …
The catastrophe of the economy is believing it... →
The driving forces behind the collapse of trust and utility in our current economy are based upon a discrepancy in value. As long as any structure continues to be abused by inflating and…
Scotty, Macgyver, & Doctor Who are Hackers →
The idea of elite technomasters is pretty well ingrained into American pop culture. Geeks can be legendary. Although highly overdramatized it’s worth mention of a few of the characters…
Perceptions are our reality, emotions define our... →
Life can be a struggle, or a harmonic state of going with the flow.
This contrast is evident when awakening from a deep slumber. When unconscious, sleep is our reality. Some days we wake…
When Building an Organization, Determine Who “We”... →
(thanks to my friend Aakin for this incredible photo, he does freelance photography)
Who do you wish to share an organization with?
Who is the ideal “us” to help grow and…
Fixed media based pricing #fails, Market Knowledge... →
The type of pricing I’m referring to is a product of BigCo thinking. Independent of the quality of the content, the price is dictated primarily by the format. It’s easier to charge a fixed…
Dynamic Design Patterns: A Hybrid Solution →
If it ain’t broke, leave it alone? Break it now anyway? Or break something new?
Two design patterns compete for adoption: Do No Harm, and Continual Beta. This post suggests a strategy for…
The Prize, Making Sense Out of Millions of Voices →
Early last year I experienced a major breakthrough, my Twitter AHA! moment. While watching tweets stream by and following way too many people, I couldn’t really tune into a…
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Ask me anything http://formspring.me/victusfate I may even answer ;)
Listening to Orbital Transient a couple dozen...
All for One, and One for All →
This famed Three Musketeers unifying call is based on the latin phrase Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno.
The ideal relationship between the dynamic demands of community, contrasted with…
Marvelous Throwaway Code is Mind Candy →
Writing good software libraries is hard because you have to make the code as close to bullet proof as possible. By bullet proof I mean elegant, reusable, fast, and few bugs. This is a…
Javascript Twitter Realtime Search Widget →
Part of Social Gravity, a new interface we’re building for social data, relies on a clean search portal to track entities/hashtags. After browsing through several remote scripts options I…
Team’s are Non-Linear Force Multipliers →
astounding shot by Michael Paolini from the HDR workshop
Thanks to Trey Ratcliff and his post about the first HDR workshop he ran, for reminding me how powerful a…
Adaption to the Shifting Economy →
There are broad classes of business frameworks that fit differently within the growing network economy. All are subject to the forces of change, and require leadership capable of adapting…
How you feel about your work is just as important... →
There are two different measures you can rely on to determine productivity. When combined, they yield the best estimate of value generated for the effort you put in. The first and most…
Nature Trumps the Laws of Man in the Long Run →
The physical “laws of nature” thus afforded (there ya go Bastos), extend far beyond the limits of life on Earth. Looking back billions of years at earlier light from the universe…
Think Bigger! Short sighted thinking has left... →
How the Hell do Big Infrastructure Projects Succeed?
This question and brief study was prompted by several conversations I engaged in yesterday. Andy Swan has been working…
The Wheel of Need, the Landscape of Potential... →
Consider the following analogy of technology and social evolution. Our desire is a massive wheel who’s various sections represent basic human needs, and who’s surface is complex…
Inspiration is Rooted in Action →
A thought riff from my good friend Jim got my wheels spinning this AM (thanks Jim for prompting my morning post). Jim’s thought of the day:
#TTOTD It is easy to be inspirational — say…
Why startups work, doing so much with so little is... →
Incremental Developments from BigCo – *yawn*
No one gets surprised by BigCo’s “latest revolutionary” product or service announcement in that company’s market space. Excess success breeds…
Why God’s a Hacker →
(with a wild coding language)
This is my first attempt at understanding the complexity of information within human DNA. I’ll attempt to compare it to ways we describe technology…
Feedback Works When You’re Detached from the Idea →
Hypothesis and Measurements
The scientific method is founded upon taking carefully planned measurements to support or disprove a hypotheses. Measurements are a critical component of this…
Unleash an Avalanche of Value with Precise Minimal... →
The Monuments of Civilization
Briefly consider the following products of mankind’s inspiration, imagination and diligance of execution:
super highways that cover continents
massive…
Smart Phones are Commodities Already →
Recent Reviews of Familiar Features
After reading a weighty Endgagdet Review and a shorter review from a tech fan I respect, Fred Wilson, I’ve reached some conclusions about smart…
Minimalist Design:sure, Feature Focused:ok, but... →
What Makes a Service Grow Exponentially
The inspiration behind this improv thought riff is Chris Dixon’s post “the next big thing will start out looking like a toy”. In it Chris talked…
A Systemic Problem with Sales Attribution →
The issue (and systemic error) is that content providers, influencers, and pre-sales are not getting fairly compensated for purchases that they ultimately contributed to. The value of…
Ludicrous Bear Story, We Don’t Get the Net →
This post isn’t about access (for 70-80% of humanity) but about understanding. From all I read, there are very few people who really understand the nature of the Internet. This is my…
Candy to the Imagination, a Day Trip to Manhattan →
The Source
Through a series of fortunate events, I found myself deep in the bowels of the Museum of Natural History yesterday. I was accompanied by my lovely and lively fiancé Michelle on…
Practical First Rails Threading Example →
Getting a Handle On Threads
Yesterday I wrote briefly about threading in Ruby. Ruby threads don’t natively take advantage of multiple processors or cores (this may have changed), but…
