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Don’t go hunting Heffalumps

HEFFALUMPS AND “SHOULD WE BUILD IT”?

Sep 4, 2017

Don’t go hunting Heffalumps

Sep 4, 2017

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Shrewsbury Sauce: technology development, path dependence and innovation

Understand technology through a recipe which took 5000 years to create. And requires a pint of wine.

Aug 13, 2017

Shrewsbury Sauce: technology development, path dependence and innovation

Aug 13, 2017

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Understanding the life of software

Software can be intangible and confusing. But analysing how it changes gives it shape and helps us think about it.

Aug 13, 2017

Understanding the life of software

Aug 13, 2017

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I am bad at planning. So are you. [Book Review: Superforecasting]

Book-review and discussion of Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Aug 13, 2017

I am bad at planning. So are you. [Book Review: Superforecasting]

Aug 13, 2017

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Technologies are not (often) ordinal

Think about “is technology A better than B” in a less dumb way

Apr 25, 2017

Technologies are not (often) ordinal

Apr 25, 2017

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The Baseline: Numbers

The Baseline: Numbers is a project to bring together all the publicly available data on the software industry. While there are a lot of…

Apr 25, 2017

The Baseline: Numbers

Apr 25, 2017

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Tricks to relearn the hacker/maker mindset

When I was young, I would make. At some point, I stopped making and learnt to manage. Then the world shifted and I’d forgotten how to make…

Feb 26, 2017

Tricks to relearn the hacker/maker mindset

Feb 26, 2017

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The Software Infinity: how to be eternally optimistic

There is an infinite amount of software to be written, and a significant amount of it is commercially viable. We have not “solved”…

Feb 26, 2017

The Software Infinity: how to be eternally optimistic

Feb 26, 2017

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The AI tool in the toolkit

Every few years, software developers get a new tool in their toolkit. Databases, version control, MVC, frameworks, package management all…

Feb 8, 2017

The AI tool in the toolkit

Feb 8, 2017

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Amazon, killing 3.6 million jobs, $8.9 billion in tax and shoplifters

The future of all jobs

Feb 8, 2017

Amazon, killing 3.6 million jobs, $8.9 billion in tax and shoplifters

Feb 8, 2017

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Where I help tech people think differently about the opportunities and effects of new technologies — See https://thebaseline.co. Follow me: twitter.com/danfrost

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