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Continuous Improvement Revisited (Bonus: Statistical Process Control)
Albert Wenger – Dec 10, 2012
In 2008, I wrote a mini series about Kaizen and Software Development. Kaizen or continuous improvement asserts the centrality of quality as the only way to achieve the trifecta of quality, speed and cost. Simply put incremental improvements around quality [...] Read more
Feature Friday: @Mentions (On Shapeways)
Albert Wenger – Dec 7, 2012
I’ll be the first to admit that I am a sucker for the command line. Hence I was smiling yesterday, when I saw the Duck Duck Go Terminal hack. But I realize that it is not mass market behavior. So [...] Read more
Ceci N’Est Pas Un … (Internet Defies Existing Categories)
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2012
It is fascinating how the Internet is creating new entities and phenomena that defy existing categories. The challenge that arises is that many politicians and regulators still think in these old categories. Here are just a bunch of recent examples. [...] Read more
Teaching Is Humbling (And That’s Good)
Albert Wenger – Dec 5, 2012
I wrote recently how programming is a great tool for learning because you haven’t really understood something until you can explain it to someone else (and in programming that someone else is the computer). Well yesterday in teaching my Skillshare [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Brainy Project Idea
Albert Wenger – Dec 4, 2012
I ended last week’s Tech Tuesday with a call for ideas for a sample project and got a couple of suggestions. Since then though I have come across a great idea for a project. And since I am teaching my [...] Read more
Thinking About Employment (Part 4)
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2012
In part 3 of this series I argued that the changes in employment are the main driver behind the massive rise in inequality in the US. That inevitably brings out a number of responses for how to address inequality, none [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Guest Checkout with Dwolla
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2012
When Union Square Ventures invested in Dwolla we were excited about the team’s approach to payments. But there was a big limitation which made initial use of Dwolla a bit daunting: you had to have a funded Dwolla account which [...] Read more
Movie Mini Reviews: Looper, Skyfall, Lincoln, Life of Pi
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2012
I have been too busy with more important topics to write movie reviews. So here are a few mini reviews (reviewlets?) of movies I have seen recently. I wanted to like both Looper and Skyfall but didn’t really. Conversely, my [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Programming (Interim Review)
Albert Wenger – Nov 27, 2012
I started the Tech Tuesday series on programming in April of this year with an overview post that compared programming to telling a person how to do something. At the time, I presented nine different questions that this raises, such [...] Read more