I just finished Hardware/Firmware Interface Design: Best Practices for Improving Embedded Systems Development, by Gary Stringham. Gary sent me a review copy of the book, btw, but I get no money for reading or reviewing it. Though if you buy the book via my Amazon link, I get a bit of cash. Anyway – the [...]
The Importance of Selective Importance
Posted by svec on November 30, 2009
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Bob Sutton quoting Bill Vlasic quoting Terry Woychowski about bureaucratic and measurement inflation at GM: “But as soon as everything is important, nothing is important.” That quote applies to pretty much any area of life. Like money, priorities and importance can be devalued through inflation. Plan, measure, and react accordingly.
Book Review: Accelerando
Posted by svec on November 29, 2009
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I just finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross for the second time. It’s a scifi novel which starts in the near-future with the first hints of computers augmenting man’s intelligence. The Singularity draws near as man becomes more integrated with machine – posthumans are born. Well, not born, more like evolved. Humans and intelligence change more [...]
Another theme change
Posted by svec on October 15, 2009
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I had to change my theme again today. A few days ago I switched to a new theme that I really liked, “LonelyTree.” One of my favorite parts of that theme was the header graphic: a great big, beautiful, wise looking tree. Today I got an email from Oliver Flores, an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, [...]
New Look
Posted by svec on October 2, 2009
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I’ve changed the theme of this site to “LonelyTree.” Nice, eh? Though that little heart favicon has got to go.
Running A Marathon (relay)
Posted by svec on September 27, 2009
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I ran in my second running race today – the Silicon Labs Austin Marathon Relay. It’s sponsored by Silicon Labs, my employer. Today’s race was a 5K, sort of. There were five people per team, each ran one part of a marathon: 12K, 10K, 10K, 5K, and 5K. I ran the penultimate 5K and blew [...]
Technology vs. Psychology
Posted by svec on May 11, 2009
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Do you write software for a living? Or design hardware? Or maybe some of each? While the particular projects any two software or hardware designers do may be worlds apart, we can characterize what we do in the same way: our work is 20% technology and 80% psychology. Most of the work we do is [...]
High-concept pitches
Posted by svec on February 25, 2009
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Links are conversations for Web 2.0.
Geeky Grammar
Posted by svec on February 10, 2009
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Holy Parenthetical Emoticons, Batman! I’m glad that Randall has the guts to tackle the tough issues facing the world today: emoticons in parenthesis. Check out the comic. Since I’m starting my own copyediting and proofreading business, this issue is particularly timely and relevant for me. Randall outlines the basic options: blah (or blah :) blah (or [...]
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