Sep 12 2011

Retweet August 2011

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe.

Software Development

  • More code, more problems.
  • Code. Money. Respect.
  • Code war is the new cold war.
  • The programer-designer is the philosopher-king or our time.
  • Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to gold farm and he’ll eat for a lifetime.

Team Leadership

  • When the world is flat and information freely available there is a premium on creativity.
  • There is no such thing as free lunch, especially if it’s lobster.
  • Give a silicon valley startup founder a lemon and he’ll make a social networking site for people that like lemonade.

Product Placement

  • I hope Twitter doesn’t become the next MySpace.
  • There is no i in Apple.
  • Google is buying Motorola for $12.5 Billion. Google is also developing a autonomous car, so in a few years it might buy Ford.
  • It’s not Thanksgiving, so why did Google pay so much for a moto turkey?
  • AT&T charges for services you use and most importantly for services you don’t, and they sell you out to the feds on top of that.
  • I know that many G+ users are still in the early adopter stages of denial, but honestly, Google does not know how to do social right.

Quote

  • Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. – P.T. Barnum
  • Wall Street is now a huge mathematical game of chess where individual companies are just pawns. – Mark Cuban
  • Search is dead. What people want is an answer. … You don’t need Trip Advisor, you don’t need Yelp. – @Jason, #TWiST 171

Questions

  • Got Woot?
  • You think Papa Murphy’s is related to Papa John’s?
  • Has Flash lost it’s fizzle?
  • If G+ was spun out of Google as an independent company it would be valued at $50 billion.
  • What company will be around in 25 years, Apple, Zynga, Facebook, Google, eBay, Microsoft, …???
  • Now they are making movies in 4D… What is next, 7D?
  • If this is your third startup, are you really still a starting up?
  • I just want to know, why are those birds so angry?

Randumb

  • When life gives you bullshit, make lemonade.
  • Untangling headphones in the dark.
  • Current Status: somewhere between FML and IDGAFF.
  • Zoned out from being on the zone for so long.
  • The future is retro.
  • Don’t trust your shit to chance.
  • MTV has as much expertise to produce MTV’s Music Awards as the History Channel’s has to produce Ancient Aliens.
  • It’s ironic how many people misuse the word irony.
  • Even though I haven’t gone back to school for a while now, I can’t resist a good Back To School sale!
  • I tired of Shark Week. When will they have Turtle Week or Salamander Week?
  • If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were to be created now they would have been known as Angry Turtles.
  • Total Retargeting
  • Shift+Happens